QUESTIONING METHODS

Which of the following questions should you ask to challenge a “mind-reading statement”?
How do you specifically know how I feel?

What does the question technique denote?

How we can use language to clarify language

Which of the following questions should you ask to challenge a “lost performative statement”,
such as “Boys shouldn’t cry.
Who says boys shouldn’t cry?

What are the three things that we do when moving from the deep structure in our unconscious
mind to the surface structure that comes out of our conscious mind?
Deletions, Distortions, Generalizations

Which of the following questions should you ask to challenge a “necessity statement”, such
as “I should remember all these policies by heart.”?
What would happen if you don’t remember all these policies?

What reconnects the speaker’s language?

The experience out of which it came

Which of the following questions should you ask to challenge a “generalized statement”, such
as “All captains are aggressive.”?
All?

Which of the following questions should you ask to challenge a “cause-effect statement”,
such as “You make me mad!”?
How specifically did I make you mad?

Which of the following questions below should you ask to challenge a “lack of referential
index statement”, such as “They did not attend the meeting.”?
Who specifically did not attend the meeting?

What is our purpose of asking challenging questions?"

To recover missing information that cropped up in the surface structure of the speaker’s message