What ICDDSM is
ICDDSM gives licensed psychotherapists and psychiatrists a structured, resource-oriented second opinion on everyday client presentations. Each card takes a recognised clinical pattern and offers:
- Everyday vignettes in plain client language
- A summary of the scientific consensus on the pattern
- A Competence Hyperdominance reframe (members)
- A 10-day micro-experiment for the client (members)
- Key research studies (members)
ICDDSM is a complementary tool, not a clinical protocol. It is designed to sit alongside professional judgement, not replace it.
Competence Hyperdominance
Competence Hyperdominance is a resource-oriented lens for clinical patterns. Its premise: every symptom is a competence that has become so dominant that it now creates problems in areas where it was never needed.
A person who ruminates is very good at processing unresolved situations - that competence has become overpowering. A person with OCD has a highly refined capacity for systematic verification - operating at full intensity in contexts that do not require it.
Why does a competence become hyperdominant? Donald Hebb described the underlying neural principle: “Cells that fire together wire together.” A competence that is activated frequently – especially under stress – builds increasingly strong circuits. It does not switch off between uses. Over time it becomes the default response, available before anything else is considered.
The reframe does not deny or minimise the suffering. It asks: where else is this competence already working well for this person? And what would it look like if the intensity were more selective?
Contact and supervision
Johannes Faupel is available for individual supervision, team consultation, and workshops on resource-oriented practice.
E-mail: info@johannesfaupel.com
Phone: +49 69 68 60 12 99
Web: johannesfaupel.com