Earliest Memories And Personality

Reconsidering therapeutic action: Loewald, cognitive neuroscience and the integration of memory’s duality

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Autobiographical Memory Narratives in Psychotherapy: A Coding System Applied to the Case of Cynthia

“…If these autobiographical memory narratives can indeed serve a diagnostic and therapeutic function, both researchers and clinicians would benefit from developing a more systematic method for identifying, categorizing, and interpreting them in the course of assessment and treatment. Although previous coding systems have been employed for early memory assessment in the Adlerian tradition (Bruhn, 1990a(Bruhn, , 1990b(Bruhn, , 1992a(Bruhn, , 1992bLangs, 1965aLangs, , 1965bMayman, 1968) and for coding more general narratives or story-telling for relational themes and defensive structures (Angus & McLeod, 2004;Book, 2004;Luborsky & Crits-Cristoph, 1998;Siegel & Demorest, 2010), there are no standardized methods for coding segments of clinical evaluations or psychotherapy sessions that zero in on the unit of a briefly recounted autobiographical memory narrative. Yet it is precisely these units across the course of a diagnostic interview or series of therapy sessions that can be extracted and assembled in order to determine an affective script that in turn often typifies the object relations and personality dynamics of the client in treatment.…”

The Power of Visual Memory: the Earliest Remembered Drawing of Alberto Giacometti, Snow White in Her Coffin

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