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The kernel of realistic fear present in the common phobias arises from phylogenetic as well as ontogenetic roots. A phobia's full development depends upon life experience, the role of the symbolization process in expressing personal conflict, and individual temperamental and familial factors.
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Phobic Disorders/psychology , Adult , Child , Humans , Phobic Disorders/therapyABSTRACT
Association formation and categorization, phenomena below volition and awareness, are in the unconscious domain. They reflect automatic processes of brain circuitry. The formation and maintenance of associations and categories require as well as yield neural energy, energy arising from cerebral metabolic processes. Automatic categorization is a fundamental element in perceptual, motoric, and cognitive functions as emphasized by Edelman (1987) who, further, relates categorization to dynamic cerebral cortical fields and to limbic fields for the necessary affective component.
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Association , Mental Processes , Unconscious, Psychology , Aphasia/psychology , Dreams , HumansABSTRACT
A review of the phenomena involved in reflex epilepsy illustrates that ideas have a neural substrate. The ideational substratum and, at times, associative links to other stimuli have physiological (epileptogenic) power. These phenomena can be applied to events in some psychopathological disorders.
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Arousal/physiology , Epilepsies, Partial/physiopathology , Reflex/physiology , Cerebral Cortex/physiopathology , Electroencephalography , Evoked Potentials/physiology , HumansSubject(s)
Free Association , Awareness , Brain/physiology , Ego , Humans , Psychoanalytic Therapy , Unconscious, PsychologyABSTRACT
Some dream images are unequivocally linked to events experienced in the waking state but are not identical. The author refers to such alterations as "obligatory associations"; these serve varied psychical requirements, including cognitive transformation.
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Association , Dreams , Wakefulness , Humans , MemorySubject(s)
Maternal Behavior , Psychoanalytic Theory , Unconscious, Psychology , Adolescent , Adult , Dreams , Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe/psychology , Female , Humans , Mother-Child Relations , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder/psychology , Psychoanalytic Interpretation , Psychoanalytic Therapy , Psychotic Disorders/psychologyABSTRACT
Studies of familial psychopathology, specifically of "imperative ideas and actions", indicate a frequent transgenerational occurrence. These affectively highly charged complexes (memories) are encoded, it is speculated, across generations by a genetic mechanism.
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Memory/physiology , Adult , Aged , Genetics , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological/genetics , Transvestism/geneticsABSTRACT
Through self-observation, the author estimated the interval between waking events and their incorporation into a dream. Most of the events had occurred the day of the dream, but some had occurred 3-4 days earlier.
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Dreams , Memory , Wakefulness , Humans , Male , Time Factors , Unconscious, PsychologySubject(s)
Neurology/education , Psychiatry/education , History, 20th Century , Louisiana , Neurology/history , Psychiatry/history , TeachingABSTRACT
Seven patients who had become aphasic as a result of acute vascular lesions reported a loss of dreaming. The authors conclude that the dreaming process is affected when the left hemisphere neural systems related to waking language are impaired.
