Extinction phenomena: A biologic perspective on how and why psychoanalysis works
This article presents the view that much of the success of classical psychoanalysis is centrally predicated on its biological potency; focusing not on neuropsychology, but on the biology of conditioning. The argument suggests that features of classic psychoanalytic technique--the couch, meetings sev...
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| description | This article presents the view that much of the success of classical psychoanalysis is centrally predicated on its biological potency; focusing not on neuropsychology, but on the biology of conditioning. The argument suggests that features of classic psychoanalytic technique--the couch, meetings several times per week with both parties present, and free association--uniquely facilitate intense transferences of various sorts, and that these in turn constitute the multiple and diverse extinction trials necessary to best approximate extinction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-66be8df2a4a74ba7834c81275559db232022-12-21T18:24:57ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782011-09-01210.3389/fpsyg.2011.0022311737Extinction phenomena: A biologic perspective on how and why psychoanalysis worksLinda A.W. Brakel0University of MichiganThis article presents the view that much of the success of classical psychoanalysis is centrally predicated on its biological potency; focusing not on neuropsychology, but on the biology of conditioning. The argument suggests that features of classic psychoanalytic technique--the couch, meetings several times per week with both parties present, and free association--uniquely facilitate intense transferences of various sorts, and that these in turn constitute the multiple and diverse extinction trials necessary to best approximate extinction.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00223/fullImaginationClassical ConditioningAversive Conditioningclassical psychoanalytic techniqueextinction trialstransference |
| spellingShingle | Linda A.W. Brakel Extinction phenomena: A biologic perspective on how and why psychoanalysis works Frontiers in Psychology Imagination Classical Conditioning Aversive Conditioning classical psychoanalytic technique extinction trials transference |
| title | Extinction phenomena: A biologic perspective on how and why psychoanalysis works |
| title_full | Extinction phenomena: A biologic perspective on how and why psychoanalysis works |
| title_fullStr | Extinction phenomena: A biologic perspective on how and why psychoanalysis works |
| title_full_unstemmed | Extinction phenomena: A biologic perspective on how and why psychoanalysis works |
| title_short | Extinction phenomena: A biologic perspective on how and why psychoanalysis works |
| title_sort | extinction phenomena a biologic perspective on how and why psychoanalysis works |
| topic | Imagination Classical Conditioning Aversive Conditioning classical psychoanalytic technique extinction trials transference |
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