How is the Decision Maker Belief Process different from psychotherapy? Isn it like cognitive-behavioral therapy?
Cognitive therapies have two major elements: (1) changing beliefs by challenging the validity of the evidence that the client gives to support them and (2) getting the client to agree to act consistently with an alternative belief to test its possible validity. Regarding point one, in the Decision Maker Belief Process the current belief is not given up because one comes to see that it’s wrong, because it’s not true, because it’s illogical, because it doesn’t make sense, and/or because it’s self defeating. In other words, one does not get “talked out” of the existing belief. The Decision Maker Belief Process actually validates people for forming the belief earlier in life by assisting them to realize that most people probably would have made a similar decision under similar circumstances. It insures that people realize that their belief actually is one valid interpretation of their earlier circumstances. Moreover, the “evidence” that you offer for a belief usually is not the real reason
