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Beyond the Fragmented Self: Theory and Practice of Deconstructive Inquiry

2025-07-16

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<p>Most psychotherapies assume a stable “observer-self” whose task is to mend a fragmented psyche. Deconstructive Inquiry (DI) challenges that premise, arguing that the observer is not a faculty to cultivate but a moment-to-moment construction that generates the very fragmentation it then tries to repair. Drawing on phenomenology and neuroscience, DI proposes that distress arises when thought reflexively partition...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/3cbue_v2

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