My point was that there are typically unconscious thoughts that lead to disorders, and fixing those disorders at the surface without finding the root is likely to cause them to reappear later, in the same or different form. E.g. aspirin will not cure malaria.
> CBT is in part about finding the flaws in your thinking that fucks you up.
That is, it focuses on conscious thought rather than unconscious. It seems to be enough only in the more benign cases.
you're assuming a false relationship between level of consciousness and severity. Case in point: war veteran with PTSD. His PTSD is from getting shot at, not from a disrupted relationship with his mother when he was 5.
case 2: patient has a phobia of flying. therapist gradually deconstructs the phobia using CBT methods, until the patient finally gets in a plane and flies.
Subconscious issues are not correlated to severity.
As for the second case, the "deconstruction" of a phobia is more characteristic of psychoanalysis than CBT.