Driving phobia
Thinking and Doing There seem two ways to act in the world, via thinking or doing. In thinking we see problem solving, use of rules, its conscious, thought based, and focuses on one thing at a time, it uses propositional knowledge and logic. In doing we see an engagement with the whole and is seen with complex tasks like driving, playing tennis or giving therapy. It’s a knowing how to, its intuitive, instinctive and action happens via feel, via the body. When you drive your focus is light across the environment in front of you, the road, its conditions, the engine and its sound. As something changes in the environment, you then respond to this, not in a conscious problem solving way but rather to continue the act of driving. Driving phobia When people become anxious with driving, the difficulty occurs because in the face of the feeling out of controllness of anxiety they use thinking to help them, they look for the danger, the car in front, the kerb etc. They give commands t...