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Discover LudwigThe phrase "defective thinking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing cognitive distortions or flawed reasoning patterns.
Example: "Therapists often work with clients to identify and challenge defective thinking that contributes to their anxiety."
Alternatives: "faulty reasoning" or "flawed thinking".
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"Maybe there's completely defective thinking [in the conventional view]," he says in the film.
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Thousands returned the record, hearing white noise and thinking it must be defective.
Finally, challenging the "androgynous" ideal of the fully good human person, they rejected "male"/ masculine" ways of being, thinking, and acting as defective.
One patient said, "I was thinking, what other genes are also defective?
I think he was mentally defective".
I think the design is defective.
Oppenheim correctly identified the disease as neurological — the ultimate cause is now known to be a single defective gene — but his findings were forgotten or ignored under the influence of Freudian thinking about the subconscious, and Cooper's patients had all been treated for years as psychiatric cases.
If we are rejected by someone we love, the trance of unworthiness may ensnare us in obsessive thinking, blaming the one who hurt us, believing that we were jilted because we are defective.
The Defective Detectives.
Defective toy watch!
Item arrived defective.
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