Change Your Inner Dialog, Narrative Plot

Inner dialog: be somebody do something of your life. Translation: Don’t be yourself and treat your life as raw material or a passive object. Relative positioning (like social media): Anxiety, depression. Introjects: voices (example: inner critic or superego which could be prosocial or sadistic). Socialization and its agents (parents, role models, peers and their pressure to conform, institutions, mass media). Map of Happiness. Subject inner dialog to scrutiny as you would a scientific theory: Attribution Ego-syntony (not happiness!) Fuzziness To qualify as a “psychological“ (both meaningful and instrumental) plot, the narrative, offered to the patient by the therapist, must be: a. All-inclusive (anamnetic) – It must encompass, integrate and incorporate all the facts known about the protagonist. b. Coherent – It must be chronological, structured and causal. c. Consistent – Self-consistent (its subplots cann