The predictive moment: reverie, connection and predictive processing

McVey, Lynn; Nolan, Greg; Lees, John

doi:10.1080/03069885.2020.1746744

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“…Primary embodied interactions permit the "mentalization" of bodily signals across exteroceptive and interoceptive sensory modalities, transforming rough perceptions into subjective feelings (Fotopoulou and Tsakiris, 2017). Correspondingly, the process was recently metaphorically linked to Bion's postulation of the way "alpha function" (i.e., maternal "reverie" generating top-down predictions) processes the infant's projected "beta fragments" (unnamed "bottomup" raw sensory impressions) (Bion, 1962;Holmes and Nolte, 2019;McVey et al, 2020). Both the "alpha function" and "predictive processing" framework focus on the linking of implicit expectations and the actual realization, based on prior learning and inference, to produce the meaning-saturated elements of thought.…”

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“…Both the "alpha function" and "predictive processing" framework focus on the linking of implicit expectations and the actual realization, based on prior learning and inference, to produce the meaning-saturated elements of thought. The importance of such linking relies on the flexible and mutual flow of information between predictions and experience, rather than being frozen in maladaptive patterns (as in depression) or disrupted and fragmented (as in psychosis) (McVey et al, 2020).…”

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“…By enabling a safe and trustful environment and by "loaning" the therapist's brain functions, creating a "reverie" that can offer therapists a means to enter the predictive moment, psychotherapy mobilizes the active inference in the context of intimate relationships (Holmes and Nolte, 2019;McVey et al, 2020). Moments of creative not-knowing may emerge and hence the need for active exploration, innovation and generative possibilities.…”

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The Embodied-Enactive-Interactive Brain: Bridging Neuroscience and Creative Arts Therapies

Vaisvaser

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The recognition and incorporation of evidence-based neuroscientific concepts into creative arts therapeutic knowledge and practice seem valuable and advantageous for the purpose of integration and professional development. Moreover, exhilarating insights from the field of neuroscience coincide with the nature, conceptualization, goals, and methods of Creative Arts Therapies (CATs), enabling comprehensive understandings of the clinical landscape, from a translational perspective. This paper contextualizes and discusses dynamic brain functions that have been suggested to lie at the heart of intra- and inter-personal processes. Touching upon fundamental aspects of the self and self-other interaction, the state-of-the-art neuroscientific-informed views will shed light on mechanisms of the embodied, predictive and relational brain. The conceptual analysis introduces and interweaves the following contemporary perspectives of brain function: firstly, the grounding of mental activity in the lived, bodily experience will be delineated; secondly, the enactive account of internal models, or generative predictive representations, shaped by experience, will be defined and extensively deliberated; and thirdly, the interpersonal simulation and synchronization mechanisms that support empathy and mentalization will be thoroughly considered. Throughout the paper, the cross-talks between the brain and the body, within the brain through functionally connected neural networks and in the context of agent-environment dynamics, will be addressed. These communicative patterns will be elaborated on to unfold psychophysiological linkage, as well as psychopathological shifts, concluding with the neuroplastic change associated with the formulation of CATs. The manuscript suggests an integrative view of the brain-body-mind in contexts relevant to the therapeutic potential of the expressive creative arts and the main avenues by which neuroscience may ground, enlighten and enrich the clinical psychotherapeutic practice.

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The Embodied-Enactive-Interactive Brain: Bridging Neuroscience and Creative Arts Therapies

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2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…1 1 Also, as a concept, reverie has found its way not only to psychoanalysis but also to neuro‐cognitive views on psychotherapies in general (McVey, Nolan & Lees, 2020), education theory (Lewcowich, 2019), musicology (Kiefer, 2021; Lochlainn, 2021) and psychotherapy research (Gee, Loewenthal & Cayne, 2013; Holmes, 2018), among others. …”

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The philosophical and historical context of Bion's concept of reverie and its use as a rhetorical act in his theory of psychoanalysis

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Laitila²

2023

Brit J Psychotherapy

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In this article, we seek to clarify the historical and philosophical roots of Bion's somewhat enigmatic concept of reverie. We also reflect on the rhetorical reasons for Bion's decision to introduce the concept into psychotherapeutic discourse. Although Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud (1894) had used the term in their Studies on Hysteria, prior to Bion it had lost its independent significance and role in psychotherapeutic theories. We would contend that even if the concept reverie has become increasingly popular in recent psychotherapeutic discourse, the relative neglect of its history and philosophy have led to problematic ways of implementing the concept in both the theory and practice of psychotherapy. We start from Jean‐Jacques Rousseau, moving on to Freud, William James, Henri Bergson and Gaston Bachelard. We present our view of why Bion considered reverie to be an indispensable tool in explicating certain psychoanalytic dimensions. We also reveal the kinds of historical and philosophical commitments that are embedded in the concept of reverie and append brief comments on the relevance of our analysis to the present state of psychotherapy and psychotherapy research.

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The predictive moment: reverie, connection and predictive processing

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The Embodied-Enactive-Interactive Brain: Bridging Neuroscience and Creative Arts Therapies

The Embodied-Enactive-Interactive Brain: Bridging Neuroscience and Creative Arts Therapies

The philosophical and historical context of Bion's concept of reverie and its use as a rhetorical act in his theory of psychoanalysis

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