Editing Cognitive distortion (section)

==Conceptualization==
In a series of publications,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Franceschi|first1=Paul|title=Compléments pour une théorie des distorsions cognitives|journal=Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive|volume=17|issue=2|pages=84–88|doi=10.1016/s1155-1704(07)89710-2|year=2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Franceschi|first1=Paul|title=Théorie des distorsions cognitives : la sur-généralisation et l'étiquetage|journal=Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive|volume=19|issue=4|pages=136–140|doi=10.1016/j.jtcc.2009.10.003|year=2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Franceschi|first1=Paul|title=Théorie des distorsions cognitives : la personnalisation|journal=Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive|volume=20|issue=2|pages=51–55|doi=10.1016/j.jtcc.2010.06.006|year=2010}}</ref> philosopher Paul Franceschi has proposed a unified conceptual framework for cognitive distortions designed to clarify their relationships and define new ones. This conceptual framework is based on three notions: (i) the reference class (a set of phenomena or objects, e.g. events in the patient's life); (ii) dualities (positive/negative, qualitative/quantitative, ...); (iii) the taxon system (degrees allowing to attribute properties according to a given duality to the elements of a reference class). In this model, "dichotomous reasoning", "minimization", "maximization" and "arbitrary focus" constitute general cognitive distortions (applying to any duality), whereas "disqualification of the positive" and "catastrophism" are specific cognitive distortions, applying to the positive/negative duality. This conceptual framework posits two additional cognitive distortion classifications: the "omission of the neutral" and the "requalification in the other pole".