On Earliest Memories

Lj, Saul; Tr, Synder; Sheppard, Edith

doi:10.1080/21674086.1956.11926024

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“…However, it is not entirely uncommon to encounter clients who remember events that occurred at the age of two. Saul et al (1956) maintain that first memories are sometimes accurate, sometimes distorted and sometimes consist of hearsay:…”

Section: Use Of Early Memories: Brief Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Career-story Interviewing Using the Three Anecdotes Technique

Maree

2010

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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This article describes the value of using the Three Anecdotes Technique (TAT) during career-story interviewing. The TAT is a technique aimed at eliciting clients' three earliest memories to help counsellors identify clients' preoccupations and thereby support them to deal with problems they encountered in early life, that still influence them. The participant was a white South African woman in her mid-twenties who was frustrated in her current career and who sought career counselling to help her decide on a career path and redesign her life. The results suggested that the technique helped the participant confront the complexities of negotiating a career pathway after the intervention. She appeared motivated to realise specific goals for her career and life development: Deal with her current (problematic) career situation, decide on a career path and redesign her life. The TAT offers a promising strategy for career intervention counselling.

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Section: Use Of Early Memories: Brief Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Career-story Interviewing Using the Three Anecdotes Technique

Maree

2010

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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“…Mayman (1968) claimed that "early memories may be analyzed as if they were fantasized representations of self and others, rather than as factual accounts of a few scattered events in a person's life" (p. 315). Saul, Snyder, and Sheppard (1956) were unequivocal in their claims about the usefulness of earliest or first memories: "They reveal, probably more clearly than any other single psychological datum, the central core of each person's psychodynamics, his chief motivations, form of neurosis, and emotional problem" (p. 228).…”

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

Wilson

2008

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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Since the time of Freud, many psychoanalysts have seen screen memories and earliest memories as reflecting underlying dynamics. I propose that an earliest remembered artwork is a highly condensed construction similar to a screen memory. Alberto Giacometti's earliest remembered drawing, of Snow White in Her Coffin, contains clues to the artist's personality and references to childhood experience. Giacometti's memory of the drawing done in childhood is a striking condensation of significant biographical events and psychodynamic conflicts, as well as a marker of important unconscious fantasies. The artist's postwar sculptural style, utilizing gaunt figures, epitomizes the final transformation of the psychological meaning of his earliest remembered drawing.

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“…Schachtel (1947) tried to reconcile Bartlett's ( 1932) constructivist notion of memory processing with what has been called Freud's "selective reconstruction model" of repression (White and Pillemer, 1979). It has been compared by some analytic writers (e.g., Saul et al, 1956) to the repression of unacceptable drives and their derivatives. It has been compared by some analytic writers (e.g., Saul et al, 1956) to the repression of unacceptable drives and their derivatives.…”

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Childhood Amnesia: A Conceptualization in Cognitive-Psychological Terms

Wetzler¹,

Sweeney

1986

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Childhood amnesia is defined operationally as the forgetting of early life events to a significantly greater degree than is accounted for by "normal" forgetting, which is an increasing recall decrement as time since occurrence increases. Three cognitive processes and their developmental changes are discussed which, when considered with psychodynamic factors, may broaden the understanding of childhood amnesia. It is argued that psychoanalytic theory and technique can benefit from the research and methods of cognitive psychology.

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On Earliest Memories

Cited by 35 publications

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Career-story Interviewing Using the Three Anecdotes Technique

Career-story Interviewing Using the Three Anecdotes Technique

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

Childhood Amnesia: A Conceptualization in Cognitive-Psychological Terms

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