counterparadox means the practice of a therapist instructing the client to do what the client is already doing, to trigger a change in perspective. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
Why “counterparadox” is a great word
COUNTERPARADOX — [Noun] A therapeutic technique in which a therapist instructs a client to deliberately continue or exaggerate a problematic behavior, thereby aiming to provoke a change in perspective or behavior. From the prefix counter- (meaning "against" or "opposite") + paradox (from Middle French paradoxe, from Latin paradoxum, from Ancient Greek paradoxos, meaning "contrary to expectation"). Unlike a "paradox" (which is a static, conceptual puzzle) or "reframing" (which recontextualizes a problem through new meaning), a counterparadox is an active, destabilizing clinical prescription. It is the insomniac commanded to strive all night not to sleep, the quarreling couple ordered to stage a ritualized argument, or the anxious perfectionist told to schedule her worry—a tactical surrender that exposes the absurd mechanics of the very struggle it pretends to endorse, revealing how the effort to obey a symptom can become the first act of disobedience against it. Sometimes the lock is opened not by turning the key, but by pushing the door in.
Etymology
counter- + paradox
noun
- The practice of a therapist instructing the client to do what the client is already doing, to trigger a change in perspective.