How to Increase Negative Self-Knowledge by Using Cognitive Restructuring Through Augmented Reality: A Proposal and Analysis

Abstract

One of the main problems in implementing cognitive restructuring lies in the resistances experienced by the client when trying to use this technique even though, paradoxically, it had previously produced good results for him. Besides feeling too lazy to start putting this technique into practice, the client often gets easily distracted when he has already began carrying it out: stated otherwise, he often hardly shows interest in dismantling those very self-criticisms which are tormenting him. I argue that Augmented Reality can constitute an effective recourse for resolving these and similar problems by increasing what I call ‘negative self-knowledge’, a concept that I present and analyze in this article.