I'm feeling cognitive dissonance like Susan Collins when I claim I support survivors but I vote for Bret Kavanaugh.
by ravenpaige October 6, 2018
Get the Cognitive Dissonance mug.A very popular talking therapy is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with a huge psychological fan base that claims to reduce anxiety and other related disorders by reconstructing negative thoughts and making them impossibly positive. A therapist normally takes the patient through a fast track procedure and expects them to be fully recovered after 4 weeks when in fact the poor bugger has actually got worse. Often done on the NHS with therapists pushed for time and the patients wanting to strangle them. Regularly sold on the internet for a fee because some bastards like to make money out of other people's misery. An over-rated therapy when really the patient has so many issues they ought to be seeing a shrink but the government has to be seen to be doing something to help the mentally deranged.
Jane went to see her therapist last week for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; I'm visiting her today in the loony bin
by MysticMog September 21, 2011
Get the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy mug.It's basically when one reality collides with another reality and you don't have the ability to say I'll pick reality 'A' instead of reality 'B'. You have to figure out a way to coexist with the current reality and it usually produces some kind of dysfunction.
Cognitive dissidence is what happens to children when they're molested by a parent where their total source of security is also the source that betrays them.
This is also relative to Germany and the peoples response to Hitler.
Another example for United States citizens, where some people who were saying they had to vote for the man with integrity, therefore they had to vote for George W. Bush. Now that it has been made so apparent to all of us that Bush and his administration are a source of betrayal to our Constitution and our true values.
These are just a few examples but it goes way beyond these. It can happen in a million different ways.
This is also relative to Germany and the peoples response to Hitler.
Another example for United States citizens, where some people who were saying they had to vote for the man with integrity, therefore they had to vote for George W. Bush. Now that it has been made so apparent to all of us that Bush and his administration are a source of betrayal to our Constitution and our true values.
These are just a few examples but it goes way beyond these. It can happen in a million different ways.
by WikiYourRights December 13, 2008
Get the cognitive dissidence mug.When you're sittin your ass at home trying to think of what you're missing. You know you won't remember until you're on the highway but you do it anyways.
by El Holandés Rojo November 14, 2010
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When that criminal bastard finally got convicted, it was such a moment of cognitive harmony that all the angels sang.
by PervasiPervasive DvPervasive D December 4, 2019
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Rod: Yeah, I know what you mean, I had to take a Philosophy course in college, and the minute it was over....bang....cognitive bulimia....without even realizing it I forgot everything I spent a semester memorizing.
Rod: Yeah, I know what you mean, I had to take a Philosophy course in college, and the minute it was over....bang....cognitive bulimia....without even realizing it I forgot everything I spent a semester memorizing.
by sheepdog1982 February 10, 2010
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