When a person sincerely endorses a testimony-based report—'the analyst says I am anxious and I accept this'—the subsequent self-ascription generates a cogito-like immunity because the thinking subject cannot be someone else.

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cogito(Cartesian epistemology): The first-person inference 'I think, therefore I am', characterized by extraordinary certainty and resistance to doubt, serving as an Archimedean turning point in Descartes' meditative inquiry
cogito-like immunity(as used in epistemology and philosophy of mind): A special kind of protection from doubt that comes from the fact that you are the one thinking or experiencing something, similar to Descartes' insight that the very act of thinking proves you exist.
immunity (in epistemology)(as used in epistemology (theory of knowledge)): Protection from being wrong or doubted; a guarantee or special certainty that applies to certain kinds of knowledge.
self-ascription(Used in the context of how one develops a sense of being a unified conscious subject): The act of attributing experiences to oneself as their subject

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