MCT is based on the following two fundamental components. The first is knowledge translation. Current research findings on cognitive biases and their link to schizophrenia/delusions are explained comprehensibly to patients and illustrated by multiple examples. The second is demonstration of the negative consequences of cognitive biases. Exercises targeting each bias indi- vidually demonstrate the fallibility of human cognition in general, with an explicit focus on thinking biases that are important in schizophrenia. Personal examples of these biases expressed by MCT participants, and discussion of ways to counter them, serve to provide corrective experiences in a fun and supportive atmosphere, yielding obvious advantages over mere lecturing. Patients are taught to recognize and counter thinking biases that are important in schizophrenia, and they are offered alternative strategies allowing them to arrive at more appropriate inferences, thus avoiding automatic ‘cognitive traps’.