Repression, accessibility, and the translation of private experience.

Bonanno, George A.

doi:10.1037/0736-9735.7.4.453

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“…A slightly weaker result was recently proved in [21] and argues that for almost all α and β one can find two positive constants C i , i = 1, 2 such that C 1 t 3 ≤ N(t) ≤ C 2 t 3 . Moreover, a similar result is known in rational polygonal billiards [22].…”

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On ergodic and mixing properties of the triangle map

Horvat

Esposti

Isola

et al. 2009

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

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In this paper we study in detail, both analytically and numerically, the dynamical properties of the triangle map, a piecewise parabolic automorphism of the two-dimensional torus, for different values of the two independent parameters defining the map. The dynamics is studied numerically by means of two different symbolic encoding schemes, both relying on the fact that it maps polygons to polygons: in the first scheme we consider dynamically generated partitions made out of suitable sets of disjoint polygons, in the second we consider the standard binary partition of the torus induced by the discontinuity set. These encoding schemes are studied in detail and shown to be compatible, although not equivalent. The ergodic properties of the triangle map are then investigated in terms of the Markov transition matrices associated to the above schemes and furthermore compared to the spectral properties of the Koopman operator in L2(T2). Finally, a stochastic version of the triangle map is introduced and studied. A simple heuristic analysis of the latter yields the correct statistical and scaling behaviours of the correlation functions of the original map.Comment: 45 pages, 30 figure

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Section: Topological Complexity Of the Triangle Mapmentioning

confidence: 91%

On ergodic and mixing properties of the triangle map

Horvat

Esposti

Isola

et al. 2009

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

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“…On the other hand, repressors and nonrepressors may actually encode and experience the same amount of unpleasant affect when it is occurring, but the repressors' memories for those unpleasant emotions may diminish over time. Theoretically, repression can occur at any point in the encoding or retrieval process (Bonanno, 1990). In short, from the current literature it is difficult to know whether the repression effect on recalling unpleasant affect is due to diminished encoding of the affect from the unpleasant experience, inhibited recall of the affect, or some combination of both processes.…”

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Ropressive Coping Style and the Experience and Recall of Emotion: A Naturalistic Study of Daily Affect

Cutler

Larsen

Bunce

1996

Journal of Personality

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Research shows that people characterized as repressors display inhibited recall for unpleasant memories. In this study, the relationship between repressive coping style and the recall of affect near the time of the experience was compared to delayed recall. An experience sampling technique was used to collect affect data twice daily for 4 weeks. Repressive coping style was found to be related to low levels of average daily unpleasant affect and lowered delayed recall of unpleasant affect. Unlike repressors, high anxious individuals overestimated unpleasant affect during delayed recall. Repressors did not exhibit isolation of the dominant unpleasant affect from nondominant unpleasant affect in daily reporting. The overall pattern of results suggests that the effect of repressive coping style is to diminish the encoding of all unpleasant affect, whereas trait anxiety appears to promote overestimation in the recall of unpleasant affect.

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“…These ideas about dissociation between enactive and representational memory systems are closely linked to other models of memory that see ‘repression’ as a form of disconnection rather than banishment of memory content. Bonanno (1990, p. 458) described Bruner’s depiction of a developmental tri‐partite model of enactive , imagistic and conceptual remembering with enactive memory associated with motoric–action sequences, followed by imagistic memories that rely primarily on visual and other sensory imagery, and lastly, conceptual memories based in language. Bruner’s framework was adopted by Geller and colleagues who looked at how patients internalized images of their therapists in one or more of these memorial forms (Geller et al ., 1981–82).…”

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“…Bruner’s framework was adopted by Geller and colleagues who looked at how patients internalized images of their therapists in one or more of these memorial forms (Geller et al ., 1981–82). Bonanno (1990) goes on to discuss how discontinuities of encoding, storage, and/or retrieval of memories in contrasting modes within the tri‐partite system might provide insight into how and why individuals lack accessibility to important emotional memories from their lives. Similar to Loewald, he endorses the creative use of metaphor within therapeutic dialogue as a way of bridging the imagistic–sensory world of enactive remembering and the domain of meaning associated with representational processing.…”

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

Singer

2011

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Both Loewald's relational theory of memory and the Self-Memory System (SMS) of cognitive neuroscience describe a dual memory system, one system that is experience-near sensory-perceptual, and the other, symbolic and conceptual. In contrast to perspectives that locate therapeutic action in either altering implicit procedural memories or interpreting explicit historical content, we argue that psychological health emerges from effective integration of both memory systems, achieved through a combination of transference dynamics and analytic insight. We support this position by elaborating four key assumptions of the loewaldian and SMS perspectives, followed by application to a clinical example. We highlight the power of certain integrative autobiographical memories called 'self-defining memories' in assisting an understanding of transference dynamics and providing metaphoric touchstones to guide subsequent treatment.

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Repression, accessibility, and the translation of private experience.

Abstract: associative connections have been established with other contents in memory. Thus, a greater portion of private experience is preconsciously available than would be suggested by the deficits approach.

Cited by 13 publications

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On ergodic and mixing properties of the triangle map

On ergodic and mixing properties of the triangle map

Ropressive Coping Style and the Experience and Recall of Emotion: A Naturalistic Study of Daily Affect

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

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