Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
That's probably the ONLY approach that is likely to be successful with my DD. We're an entire family of people who look at post-modernist thinking and go... "HUH?? What a load... of...delusional... crapola." Mostly internally, of course. Well, DD and I do it internally; DH not always so much. <> {No offense to any post-modernists intended-- it's just not a worldview that makes any sense whatsoever to us}

So anything play-based or 'touchy-feely' is likely to be an abject failure because it won't feel "real" to my DD, and she'll reject it as fantasy-based groping-around-in-the-dark nonsense.

The funny thing is that that's how I grew up.

Then I realized, uh, oh, um, er, I so, so have the wrong worldview because this, uh, empirical-experiential data is completely inconsistent with my assumptions.

Crud. I am so in trouble.

Really, though it has more to do with the subject matter of these books more than anything else:

http://www.amazon.com/My-Stroke-Ins...208&sr=8-1&keywords=My+Stroke+of+Insight

http://www.amazon.com/Master-His-Em...1-1&keywords=The+Master+and+his+Emissary

Anyhow, the *reason* that the "touchy feely" both works and really is "groping around in the darkness" is that the problem is somehow embedded in the non-rational/emotional part of the brain.

Which means that you can't use cognition to use it because the cognition can't *see* it. It's not that it's "dark" it's that the part you use to think is literally blind to it.

I look at it as a mental-emotional blind spot. You can't
it because you *can't* see it. It's a lacuna as far as normal cognition is concerned.

However, I think that's *why* it works. I could be wrong. It's not my area.

In your case, I would hope that CBT works.