Deep Reflection and Immediate Reflection as Psychotherapy Treatment: 10 Axioms and Commentary

1)If statement A is made, we can say that the speaker chose to make it.

2)If statement A is made, it was either reflected on before or not.

3)Choice is either reflected on prior to the choice or not.

4)Some choices are thought through more than others, which can hypothetically be calculated by the time which has been thought before speaking or articulating.

5)Because a choice can be reflected on days prior before it is blurred out immediately, we do not immediately know the extent of reflection upon the statement.

6)Because some statements are novel, reflection from two different axioms can lead to problem solving or the statement of the third axiom.

7)Because of the lack of clarity of time one reflected on various statements which produced a third statement, the synthetic nature of thought does not lead us to a clear answer of the amount of statements.

8)We can not then, speak of a total reflection with accuracy, but only an immediate reflection prior to action.

9)Impulse can be known as a short time period of immediate reflection.

10)Impulse has a negative impact on problem solving insofar as a lack of immediate reflection creates a worse qualitative result than problem solving with more time of immediate reflection.

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This quantitative immediate reflection is seen most obviously in Grandmaster chess games. At times things have been solved to a degree where moves are made immediately without immediate reflection.

A long time to make a move in a Grandmaster chess game is indicative of deep reflection, which is to say the study of chess required to be a Grandmaster, as well as a considerable amount of immediate reflection.

In addition, a lack of immediate reflection by a Grandmaster will nearly always be due to a deep reflection on the game and concept.

While it is possible to “think oneself out of the right answer,” it is much more common to make a mistake due to a lack of quantitative immediate reflection.

Therefore, to become better problem solvers, we need to increase immediate concrete reflection.

This can be stated in therapy via the principle of pausing and thinking through before a reaction.