Adaptive Regression of Two Types

Rosegrant, John

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“…In summary, these studies showed creativity to be positively related to both primary process and secondary process shaping of primary process, and the therapeutic process to be positively related to secondary process shaping of primary process, but found other types of adaptive regression to be positively related only to primary process. Predicting the same pattern, Rosegrant (1980) compared aesthetic sensitivity with privately adaptive regression: Aesthetic sensitivity was positively related to secondary process shaping of primary process but not to absolute amount of primary process; privately adaptive regression was positively related to absolute amount of primary process but not to secondary process shaping of primary process.…”

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A reconceptualization of adaptive regression.

Rosegrant¹

1987

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The concept of adaptive regression is useful because it emphasizes that regression can be adaptive, but is misleading in suggesting that adaptive regressions are a discrete and unitary set of phenomena. Recently, writers have stated that primary process and creativity are not regressive, but these ideas imply an implausibly sharp break between regressive and adaptive phenomena, and are contradicted by empirical observations. Regression may be adaptive in a variety of ways: It may be chosen and used for communication or for privately adaptive ends, or it may occur unbidden, but nevertheless, be used for communication or privately adaptive ends. A more meaningful question than "Is regression adaptive or maladaptive," is "How is regression adaptive, maladaptive, or both?" but a quality found in a wide range of phenomena.Adaptive regressions are processes wherein regressive experiences are motivated and/or used to improve adaptation. The concept of adaptive regression is important because the use of regression for adaptation has been only insecurely recognized by psychoanalysis; as I indicate in this article, it was recognized as early as Freud, but remains arguable by some current writers. Despite its importance in this way, however, the concept of adaptive regression is misleading in implying that adaptive regression is a discrete category of experience, which does not need to be differentiated further internally, and that may be differentiated clearly from maladaptive regressions. In this article, I point out that there are different ways in which regressions may be adaptive, and that adaptive regression should be considered not a type of phenomenon, but a quality found in a wide range of phenomena.I use "adaptive regression" as including processes that have alternatively been called "regression in the service of the ego." Originally meant to account for creativity and aesthetic sensitivity (Kris, 1952), the concept has been ex-Requests for reprints should be sent to

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Section: The Communication Dimension Of Adaptive Regressionmentioning

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A reconceptualization of adaptive regression.

Rosegrant¹

1987

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Primary Process Patterning in College Students' Inkblot Responses

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1982

Journal of Personality Assessment

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Holzman Inkblots were administered under standard instructions and under instructions to respond imaginatively. Protocols were scored according to Holt's system for scoring primary process. Subcategories of primary process proved to be reliable and to differ in prominence. A stable pattern of primary process, characterizing college students' inkblot responses, appears to represent students' intuition of what it means to be imaginative.

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Engineering Inspiration

MacLennan

2016

Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts

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This chapter proposes a computerized tool to promote inspiration in a specific, but very important, kind of scientific creativity, for significant scientific breakthroughs are often enabled by conceptual revolutions. The creative process is often divided into four phases: preparation, incubation, inspiration, and verification/elaboration. The proposed tool enhances the incubation phase of scientific creativity, with the goal of inspiring fruitful reconceptualization of a problem. It accomplishes this by exposing the scientist-user to continuous sequences of images designed to engage innate, unconscious cognitive structures. The sequence is not fixed, but may vary either randomly or under user direction. When this image flow seems relevant to the problem, users can record their position in it and their own ideas with a variety of low-interference recording techniques. Several simple image flows are described, along with the computational engine for generating them.

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Adaptive Regression of Two Types

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A reconceptualization of adaptive regression.

A reconceptualization of adaptive regression.

Primary Process Patterning in College Students' Inkblot Responses

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