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VOC

Validity of Cognition

How true a positive self-belief feels — beyond intellectual knowledge, the gut-level sense of it.

Format

A self-rating from 1 (“completely false”) to 7 (“completely true”), used before and after reprocessing a memory.

Origin

A component of the EMDR protocol formalised by Francine Shapiro from the late 1980s.

Related therapies

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