ABSTRACT
In the self-confrontation technique, the participant must accept credit for any change, insight, or confronted-experience. Prior to the Now self-confrontation technique, positive feedback, although desperately wanted, could never be tolerated. Self-Confrontation therapy works with all survivors with a resistance-to-change problem. It is especially helpful with sex-offenders and survivors of sexual abuse who have had years of unsuccessful therapy attempts. In any case where self-image and self-esteem problems are the primary cause of therapeutic resistance, this technique should be considered one of the methods of choice. Once positive results are obtained with self-confrontation, then other forms of traditional treatment modalities can be utilized and will have a much better chance of succeeding. Where resistance is so great that even the self-confrontation mirror technique, in the format described above, does not work, a further rule is added to the technique to insure success.
