On The Psychology Of Self-Deception By David Shapiro

In “On the Psychology of Self-Deception” David Shapiro states there are two distinctions that describe self-deception: what one feels about something and what one imagines oneself to feel. Shapiro states one must use selective monitoring of oneself. He also questions how can the knowing deceiver be unknowingly deceived. Regular self-monitoring does not require understanding, instead its consists of a person’s individual character. Once one has doubt it is easy to turn what one believes into what one tells oneself they believe. In self-deception one must consider there is a loss of reality between what one tells oneself to be true. Shapiro explains that a loss is not absent in normal and in most psychopathology. Under certain conditions one’s