Dyadically Expanded States of Consciousness and Therapeutic Change in the Interaction Between Analyst and Adult Patient

Cavelzani, Alessandro; Tronick, Ed

doi:10.1080/10481885.2016.1214478

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“…Preverbally, IdN incorporates the previously described match/mismatch/repair paradigm during mother/infant interaction (Cavelzani & Tronick, 2016). This incorporation into the unconscious IdN mirrors the "predictive cycle" paradigm of procedural learning (Tadlock, 2005).…”

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Identity Narrative as an Unconscious Scaffold for Human Autobiography

Novac¹,

Tuttle²,

Bota³

et al. 2019

European Journal of Natural Sciences and Medicine

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Over the past years, a multi-disciplinary literature on the significance of personal narratives in autobiography and identity has emerged. This subject has been of interest to authors in the fields of humanities, psychology, and medicine alike. In this paper, we are proposing the term Identity Narrative (IdN) to define a cognitive and emotional framework that serves as an implicit (unconscious) scaffolding of memory on which to build human autobiography. The authors first classify narratives into external (universal history, the humanities, culture) and internal (autobiography, based on personal experiences, both directly and indirectly, through identification and education). All philosophy and social commentary has utilized history for the purposes of prediction and meaning-making. Personalities including Aristotle, St. Augustine, Rousseau, Freud, Marx, Spengler, and Benjamin Franklin have reread history to gain insight about human nature. History has inspired the enlightenment and renaissance of a new reality for humanity. It is widely known that history can also be misused to justify aggression and human suffering. The use of history to create deep convictions that annihilate moral imperatives is only possible because of unconsciously consolidated internal narratives, the IdN. IdN is reshaped through life, both by “bottom-up” acquisition of information, as well as a “top-down” learning model, which includes the following circumstances: (a) sudden insight and awareness; (b) experiences with high emotional valence; (c) high frequency of repetition; and (d) prolonged duration of exposure. In this way, IdN, a form of relatively stable unconscious, anoetic memory, provides a “first-person” experience to autobiography. Autobiography then, becomes part of auto-noetic consciousness, the human ability to mentally time travel and have self-knowledge. IdN parallels lifelong growth and development, language acquisition, and maturing of attachment. The extensive brain activation during communication and speech, revealed by neuroimaging studies, will be referred to as the “communication beltway.” We hypothesize that the alternation in activation between the default mode (midline structures) of the brain (previously associated with the Self) and the language brain creates a platform that encodes crucial components of IdN throughout life. In this way, IdN, autobiographical memory, and the language brain are parts of a larger biological substrate of social affiliations.

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confidence: 99%

“…Human consciousness is linked to our capacity to keep history. Our ability and need to keep a timeline between past, present, and future necessitates the creation of stories and human history 1 . Indeed, human history starts with telling of stories and fairytales.…”

Section: Introduction Narrative Identity and Identity Narrative (Idn)mentioning

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Identity Narrative as an Unconscious Scaffold for Human Autobiography

Novac¹,

Tuttle²,

Bota³

et al. 2019

European Journal of Natural Sciences and Medicine

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“…In normal relational processes, including the therapeutic relationship, interactions move between states of ‘matching’ (mutually coordinated and rewarding states), ‘mismatching’ (affectively negative, mis‐coordinated states) and ‘repair’ of the latter (Tronick, 2007; Cohn & Tronick, 1989). Not all mismatches are disruptive or problematic for the interaction and, in fact, such glitches can provide opportunities for deep connection and change (Cavelzani & Tronick, 2016; Eubanks et al., 2018). Some mismatches, however, create a rupture; we use the term rupture to denote a sudden and distressing break of contact.…”

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Observing and interpreting clinical process: Methods and findings from ‘Layered analysis’ of parent–infant psychotherapy

Baradon

Avdi

Sleed

et al. 2023

Infant Mental Health Journal

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This paper describes a method for investigating clinical process, Layered Analysis, which combines therapist countertransference reports and multi‐faceted microanalytic research approaches. Findings from the application of Layered Analysis to video‐recorded micro‐events of rupture and repair in four psychoanalytic parent–infant psychotherapy sessions are presented. Layered analysis showed that countertransference and observation are complementary perspectives, which enable concomitant study of interactive events, conscious internal experiences, as well as nonconscious and unconscious elements of therapeutic interaction. Interactional rupture and repair were found to constitute co‐constructed micro‐events that occurred fleetingly and often implicitly, and differed in the structure, coherence and flow of interactions and in the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication. Furthermore, interactional ruptures were found to sometimes ‘get into’ the therapist and transiently disrupt their self‐organization, such that the therapist became a locus of disruption for the patient(s), actively contributing to the rupture, which thus became embedded in the therapeutic system. Interactive repair was found to be most often initiated by the therapist and to be underpinned by the therapist re‐establishing self‐regulation, through metabolizing embodied and verbal aspects of the rupture. Studying such processes can enhance our understanding of clinical process, inform therapist training and clinical supervision, and contribute to clinical outcomes.

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