Measuring Transference Phenomena With fMri

Gerber, Andrew J.; Peterson, Bradley S.

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“…This psychological phenomenon, known as transference, was proposed by Freud (1957) to describe patients' projection of aspects of the parent-child power and love relationship onto the analyst. Recently, controlled behavioral experiments provide empirical support for transference idealization with anxiety-reducing effects that can be understood using neural network approaches (Gabbard 2006) and visualized with neural imaging techniques (Gerber and Peterson 2006). Charismatic leaders and deities are common soteriological transference objects, but so are movie stars, political leaders, lovers, and teachers.…”

Section: Ernest Becker's Ideas On Denial Of Death and The Symbolic Selfmentioning

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The People Paradox: Self-Esteem Striving, Immortality Ideologies, and Human Response to Climate Change

Dickinson¹

2009

E&S

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ABSTRACT. In 1973, Ernest Becker, a cultural anthropologist cross-trained in philosophy, sociology, and psychiatry, invoked consciousness of self and the inevitability of death as the primary sources of human anxiety and repression. He proposed that the psychological basis of cooperation, competition, and emotional and mental health is a tendency to hold tightly to anxiety-buffering cultural world views or "immortality projects" that serve as the basis for self-esteem and meaning. Although he focused mainly on social and political outcomes like war, torture, and genocide, he was increasingly aware that materialism, denial of nature, and immortality-striving efforts to control, rather than sanctify, the natural world were problems whose severity was increasing. In this paper I review Becker's ideas and suggest ways in which they illuminate human response to global climate change. Because immortality projects range from belief in technology and materialism to reverence for nature or belief in a celestial god, they act both as barriers to and facilitators of sustainable practices. I propose that Becker's cross-disciplinary "science of man," and the predictions it generates for proximate-level determinants of social behavior, add significantly to our understanding of and potential for managing the people paradox, i.e., that the very things that bring us symbolic immortality often conflict with our prospects for survival. Analysis of immortality projects as one of the proximate barriers to addressing climate change is both cautionary and hopeful, providing insights that should be included in the cross-disciplinary quest to uncover new pathways toward rational, social change.

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Section: Ernest Becker's Ideas On Denial Of Death and The Symbolic Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

The People Paradox: Self-Esteem Striving, Immortality Ideologies, and Human Response to Climate Change

Dickinson¹

2009

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108

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“…4,9,25 Viewing transference in terms of concepts such as the heightened activation of enduring patterns of cognitive-affective processing in the therapeutic relationship may facilitate its empirical study. 2,5,41,42 (Counter-tranference, analogously, can be described in terms of the therapist's cognitive-affective processing of the patient). Furthermore, the asymmetry between our experience of others and of the self has cru-…”

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How We See Others:The Psychobiology of Schemas and Transference

Stein¹

2009

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Social cognition involves automatic and stimulus-driven processes; these may be important in mediating stereotypes in the community and schemas and transference in the clinic setting. Significant differences in self-related processing and other-related processing may also lead to important biases in our view of the other. The psychobiology of social cognition is gradually being delineated, and may be useful in understanding these phenomena, and in responding appropriately. In the clinic, schemas can be rigorously assessed, and schema-focused psychotherapy may be useful in a number of indications.

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“…Research oriented by psychoanalysis and based on the technical resources of the smartphone constitutes a new and promising field of investigation in the academic domain. The place acquired by psychoanalysis in some universities has indeed allowed the practice of interdisciplinarity ( Potier and Putois, 2018 ; Arcous et al, 2019 ), research in interaction with neuroscience ( Gerber et al, 2006 , 2011 ; Gerber and Peterson, 2006 ; Bazan, 2007 , 2015 ; Georgieff, 2007 , 2010 , 2011 ; Ansermet and Magistretti, 2011 ; Bazan et al, 2013 ), followed by evidence of treatment effectiveness from their evaluation ( Leichsenring et al, 2004 ; Leichsenring, 2005 ; Thurin et al, 2006 ; Shedler and Westen, 2007 ; Leichsenring and Rabung, 2008 ; Shedler, 2010 ; Fonagy et al, 2015 ; Thurin, 2017 ). Psychoanalysis has always had the potential to be irrigated by the life sciences on the one hand and the social sciences on the other.…”

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The Digital Phenotyping Project: A Psychoanalytical and Network Theory Perspective

Potier

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Measuring Transference Phenomena With fMri

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

The People Paradox: Self-Esteem Striving, Immortality Ideologies, and Human Response to Climate Change

The People Paradox: Self-Esteem Striving, Immortality Ideologies, and Human Response to Climate Change

How We See Others:The Psychobiology of Schemas and Transference

The Digital Phenotyping Project: A Psychoanalytical and Network Theory Perspective

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