The heart of redecision therapy: resolving injunctive messages

The clinician use the two columns that are under the heading, "self diagnosis". These statements were created so that an individual could have a means to ask reflective questions in the quest to identify relevant injunctive messages. The process in each category represents the acquisition of new data, insight, and empathy. The most important and optimistic point is that the original despairing responses to all injunctive messages can be effectively altered without resorting to any of the defiant decision strategies. The redecision work involved helping the person access an early scene from childhood and bring it into the present. In this present moment the person was invited to make a new decision to counter the earlier collaborative decision from their childhood. This process frequently involved the Gestalt technique of two-chair work. The expectation from this process was a demonstrable change in the person's behaviour and a perceptible ability to act in a more autonomous manner.