Concept

Reality testing

Overview

Reality testing is the psychotherapeutic function by which the objective or real world and one's relationship to it are reflected on and evaluated by the observer. This process of distinguishing the internal world of thoughts and feelings from the external world is a technique commonly used in psychoanalysis and behavior therapy, and was originally devised by Sigmund Freud.

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Related ideas

• Mental disorder
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychosis
• Psychotherapy
• Sigmund Freud
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Rational emotive behavior therapy

Opposing perspectives

• Subject and object (philosophy)

Place in the tradition

Part of Consciousness.

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