Loving this week’s “This and That” interview with Paul bloom, and Robert Wright at the top of the Substack…. I’m a subscriber, and yet I don’t seem to be able to know how to access the behind the pay wall content of this particular interview? Just hoping for some clarification . Thank you, Malcolm.
Hi Malcolm -- In the post "Dear Paid Subscribers", there should be link to a document that let's you access all my paywalled content. Please let me know if that works for you.
There's no question that all the research on confirmation bias backs up the theory that psychoanalysis and research are both going to be prone to focusing on being right, not going in lightly and being completely open to being wrong. And, the difference between research and psychoanalysis is that when a researcher is wrong, the scientific process makes that fact hard to escape, whereas psychoanalysis doesn't lend itself to that.
However, there was new research discussed in the Monitor on Psychology just this month that did discuss how discussing trauma DOES hold value. They discovered that people with PTSD experience did not work in the hippocampus at that time, whereas constructively stored sadness or neutral memories did light up the hippocampus, which organizes and contextualizes memories. They also discovered that talking about trauma helped start moving those memories into the hippocampus. Go therapy! So, that study does support the probability that psychoanalitical discussions about trauma could be productive.
Loving this week’s “This and That” interview with Paul bloom, and Robert Wright at the top of the Substack…. I’m a subscriber, and yet I don’t seem to be able to know how to access the behind the pay wall content of this particular interview? Just hoping for some clarification . Thank you, Malcolm.
Hi Malcolm -- In the post "Dear Paid Subscribers", there should be link to a document that let's you access all my paywalled content. Please let me know if that works for you.
Interesting discussion!
There's no question that all the research on confirmation bias backs up the theory that psychoanalysis and research are both going to be prone to focusing on being right, not going in lightly and being completely open to being wrong. And, the difference between research and psychoanalysis is that when a researcher is wrong, the scientific process makes that fact hard to escape, whereas psychoanalysis doesn't lend itself to that.
However, there was new research discussed in the Monitor on Psychology just this month that did discuss how discussing trauma DOES hold value. They discovered that people with PTSD experience did not work in the hippocampus at that time, whereas constructively stored sadness or neutral memories did light up the hippocampus, which organizes and contextualizes memories. They also discovered that talking about trauma helped start moving those memories into the hippocampus. Go therapy! So, that study does support the probability that psychoanalitical discussions about trauma could be productive.
Good stuff!
Doi: 10.1038/s41593-023-01483-5
Thank you very much Paul! I was able to access the-extra content and I’m enjoying listening to it!…..