>>93581
There are other places in therapy that talking is used that seems similar to me. In Avatar Therapy for malicious auditory hallucinations, a patient tells a therapist the nasty things they hear the voice telling them, and then the therapist uses a computerized face to speak those words back to the patient, and has the patient contradict them. This continues, but as the patient contradicts the therapist's digital puppet, the "avatar" is toned down, perhaps getting a bit smaller, and the therapist roleplays them as less and less powerful or confident. This sort of mirrors what we see in phantom limb experiments, where simply seeing a fake arm is enough to change the way the brain thinks about the body's configuration, and lets it untangle itself a bit.
It also sounds similar to parts therapy methods like internal family systems, where the mind is understood as a series of interacting systems, for example one "part" might be a protecting kind of part that is a response to a specific kind of trauma that happened to someone, and so sends a lot of "panic!" signals in response to something happening that once was associated with bad things about to happen, but is now no longer an adaptive habit. In that kind of therapy, the patient would deeply visualize and feel within their body all the associations of this "part" (this accesses the memory/related memories - due to the biochemistry of how memory works, a memory must be accessed somewhat recently before it can be changed), and then have a conversation with that protector part thanking them for their diligent service but showing them that their habit is no longer needed anymore.
In all of these cases, language is used to calibrate, moderate, or share information between different subsystems within the brain.
If reading the above discussion was interesting to you, you might enjoy learning about how neuroscientists understand the way the brain works at a high level, which is by predicting things and then looking at the mistakes as a signal, several times in a hierarchy, all at once. There's a statistical model called a kalman filter - it's baPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
