The Enchanted LoomTeasing sturdy threads from neuroscience masterworks

Teasing 10 threads from Efrat Ginot’s…

Thread 1:

The unconscious is the container for thedefended-against painful experiences that cannot coexistwith one’s conscioussense of self.

(pg. xxxv)

Thread 2:

Willful intentions, conscious or uncon-scious, do not guide our tendency to repeat familiarpatterns. Instead,complexbrain processesdo.

(pg. xxxv)

Thread 3: Self-agency only emerges from consciousintentions to pursue specific goals.

(pg. 177)

Thread 4:

Avoidance reactions become part of “who we are” and are executed unconsciously and seamlessly as if there was no other alternative.

(pg. 12)

Thread 5:

Memories are constructed, shaped andreshaped by the act of remembering itself.Memories are actually altered a bit with eachrecall.

(pg. 27)

Thread 6:

Restoration of homeostasis and emotionalwell-being is the cornerstone of lifemanagement.

(pg. 154)

Thread 7:

When a negative and faulty self-evaluationdevelops, a child has internalized his ownparents’ impatience,criticism, neglect orlack of acceptance.

(pg. 150)

Thread 8:

In spite of knowing better, when we experience the familiar, convincing feeling of remem-bering, especially within an emotional state, distorted memories still seem totally true.

(pg. 117)

Thread 9:

Therapists can never avoid relationshipruptures and enactments. Repair, inevit-able and necessary,upon resolutionstrengthens the patient’s ability totolerate emotionalturmoil.

(pg. 161)

Thread 10:

Insight by itself is necessary, but not suffi-cient for change. Insight, even if accom-panied by intenseemotions, is nomatch for the automatic andhabitual forcesof nonconsciousprocesses.

(pg. 169)

Image Credits:

Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 3 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/born-for-this-161346733

Slide 12 - http://journalpsyche.org/processing-information-with-nonconscious-mind/

Slide 2 - http://bit.ly/1mo4U9a

Slide 6 - http://www.peanutbutterrunner.com/avoidance/

Slide 5 - https://michaelhyatt.com/goal-setting.html

Slide 11 - http://www.andrewcharalambous.co.uk/teachings/

Slide 10 - http://thecollaboratory.wikidot.com/philosophy-of-thought-and-logic-2013-2014

Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 9 - http://bit.ly/1P74F9t

Slide 8 - http://worthit2bme.com/fightflightimmobolize/therapeutic-window-of-tolerance/

Slide 7 - http://journalpsyche.org/tag/unconscious-mind/

Slide 4 - http://bit.ly/1RYvXE0

Mark Brady, PhDTheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com

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