Log

The problem of how to compensate the shadow appears on the surface and disappears, and then comes up again, like a log carried along by a muddy river; and there is nobody there to fish out that log and make a good beam of it.

Jung uses the log as a central metaphor for unconscious shadow-contents that repeatedly surface within the flow of psychic life but are lost because no adequately conscious attitude is present to retrieve and transform them into structural or purposive form.

Jung, C.G., Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939, 1988thesis

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The log should be the immediate indicator of the target for the next session. During the initial stages of EMDR therapy the emphasis is on treating the most dysfunctional memories, which have set the groundwork for the pathology. Along with the history taking, the log reveals the most pertinent targets.

Shapiro identifies the between-session log as the primary clinical instrument for determining treatment targets in EMDR, arguing that it exposes the most pathologically significant memories, dreams, and associated incidents.

Shapiro, Francine, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, 2001thesis

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What the log does is to enable the clinician to see how well the client's new pattern of reaction has been integrated with his current environment. This reevaluation gives the clinician the opportunity to review the quality of the client's internal and behavioral responses within his social system.

Shapiro positions the log as a reevaluation instrument, measuring the quality of post-processing integration by tracking whether the client's affective and behavioural responses within the social environment reflect adaptive change.

Shapiro, Francine, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, 2001thesis

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log your actual times each day to see how closely you kept to your original schedule. Adjust it as needed, but try to keep it as closely as possible.

In a biblically-oriented addiction recovery framework, daily logging of actual behaviour against a structured schedule is prescribed as a sobriety-maintenance practice, extending the log's function into moral self-monitoring.

Shaw, Mark E., The Heart of Addiction: A Biblical Perspective, 2008supporting

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