My experience of personal development and models of how it works also suggest that, whether or not this model provides a correct etiology for various methods of therapy and self-help, it is describing the correct pattern, so is at least useful in that vein. I think what is potentially most interesting about this theory is not what it suggests in terms of therapy (lots of people have already semi-independently figured out that what’s described here is how the process works and they’ve called it by lots of different names) but that it begins to point towards a specific mechanism we can investigate to explain the phenomena. My guess is that it will be partly wrong, but my hope is that it points us towards directions of neuroscience research that may allow us to develop better, successor theories that will result in us understanding the mechanism of action at play in these many therapy and self-help techniques.
My experience of personal development and models of how it works also suggest that, whether or not this model provides a correct etiology for various methods of therapy and self-help, it is describing the correct pattern, so is at least useful in that vein. I think what is potentially most interesting about this theory is not what it suggests in terms of therapy (lots of people have already semi-independently figured out that what’s described here is how the process works and they’ve called it by lots of different names) but that it begins to point towards a specific mechanism we can investigate to explain the phenomena. My guess is that it will be partly wrong, but my hope is that it points us towards directions of neuroscience research that may allow us to develop better, successor theories that will result in us understanding the mechanism of action at play in these many therapy and self-help techniques.