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
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Freud on the Dynamics of Transference
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 a...
Dr. Husen Reads from Minuchin on Structural Family Therapy and the Psychosomatic Family and Others
Dr. Jim Reads Salvador Minuchin's Families and Family Therapy, A Foundational Resource for Understanding Munichin's Structural Family Therapy Chapter 1--Structural Family Therapy Dr. Husen reads from Flaskas' (2009): "Love and Hate and the oedipal myth: The perfect bridge between the systemic and the psychoanalytic" in Flaskas, C. & Pocock, D. (2009). Systems and Psychoanalysis : Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central. Below, Dr. Husen reads from Minuchin's Psychosomatic Family, Chapter
Dr. Jim reads from Dr. Christine A. Courtois and Dr. Julian D. Ford's Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models, pp. 31 and 32 on the Impact of psychological trauma on early childhood: The survival brain. Dr. Jim reads pp. 31 and 32 of Julian Ford's "Neurobiological and Developmental Research: Clinical Implications. The illustration above is from Panksepp's Book on Affective Neuroscience which I found fascinating and wrote about in my book on Domestic Violence and It's Effects on Children. There I wrote: In the context of a child getting ready to go to school at age 5, the most insidious impact DV has on preschool children relates to how exposure to DV constrains and shapes a child’s perception of self. Such children become hypervigilant to cues of danger; this deprives them of the ability to engage in spontaneous, joyful play. DV in the home robs the preschool child of natural childhood curiosity and learning. DV t...
