SR03 · Module
Socratic Autotherapy and Self-Examination
Performing cognitive therapy on oneself: Socratic questioning of underlying belief systems (Socrates), Karen Horney's systematic self-analysis of neurotic blind spots, and Seneca and Quintus Sextius's nightly courtroom of conscience.
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“If you didn’t learn these things in order to demonstrate them in practice, what did you learn them for?”
“What have I done wrong? What have I done well? What have I omitted that I ought to have done?”
“Most men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes - but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.”
“There is a certain extra gain in having conquered [inner] territory entirely through one’s own initiative, courage, and perseverance.”
“Experience ... shows beyond any doubt that patients can develop an amazing faculty of keen self-observation if they are bent on understanding their own problems.”
“Self-knowledge is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. In this sense, to work at ourselves becomes not only the prime moral obligation, but at the same time, in a very real sense, the prime moral privilege. To the extent that we take our growth seriously, it will be because of our own desire to do so.”
“Put up with being laughed at on occasion; look around you, and give yourself a good shaking to find out who you really are.”