Dr. James Husen, Licensed Psychologist, Licensed Attorney, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

 Bowlby on Knowing What You Are Not Supposed to Know and Feeling What You Are Not Supposed to Feel. Dr. Jim Reads Bowlby's Article on this issue: Click Here

Freud on the Dynamics of Transference I decided to read Freud's 1912 "Dynamics of Transference" after reading the following statement in Cozolino's "The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy" where he talked about the projective hypothesis. There Cozolino wrote: "Despite a conscious awareness that something may be wrong, the hidden layers of neural  processing continue to organize the world based on the prior experiences that shaped them. As we  will see in later chapters, the neural circuitry involved with fear has a tenacious memory and can  invisibly influence conscious awareness for a lifetime. Part of psychodynamic therapy is an  exploration and uncovering of this unconscious organization of experience. Freud’s projective  hypothesis described the process by which our brains create and organize the world around us.  As  the clarity of a situation decreases, the brain naturally generates structure and projects it onto the  world. The way we organize and und