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Do unconscious emotions exist in the human mind? Implications for psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies
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Find out more »Mentalizing Interoceptive Signals Together with a Felt Self #2
This follow-up presentation will review some of the commentaries on the Mentalizing Homeostasis target article. Implications for the use of "embodied imagery" in psychotherapy will be discussed.
Find out more »The Emerging Neuroscience of Self
References: Decey, J. & Somerville, J.A. (2003). Shared representations between self and other: a social cognitive neuroscience view. Trends Cog. Sci., 7:527-533. Di Francecsco, M. (2008). Consciousness and the self. Funct. Neurol. 23(4):179-187. Smith, R. (2017). A neuro-cognitive defense of the unified self. Conscious Cogn. 48:21-39.
Find out more »The Emerging Neuroscience of Self–Part II
We will begin with three questions from last month's presentation: at what level are the processes of self available to consciousness? How may unconscious memories participate in self processes? And, what is the ole of self agency in the experience of self-other boundaries? We will then discuss the key points of Smith's paper on the unified self, and move to an article by Ebisch and Aleman on how neural networks participate in the quality of self-other boundaries. References: Smith, R. (2017)…
Find out more »Affect Regulation and Affect Reconsolidation in the Salience Network
Suggested Readings: Craig, A.B. (2009). How do you feel--now? The anterior insula and human awareness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10:59-70. doi:1038/nrn2555. Lane, R.D., Ryan, L. Nadel, L., & Greenberg, L. (2014). Memory reconsolidation, emotional arousal and the process of change in psychotherapy: New insights from brain science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38:1-80. doi:10.1017/S0140525X14000041. Menon, V. & Uddin, L.Q. (2010). Saliency, switching, attention, and control: A network model of insula function. Brain Structure and Function, 214(5):655-667. doi:10.1007/s00429-010-0262-0.
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