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Use of a Psychophysiological Script-driven Imagery Experiment to Study Trauma-related Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder
Published on: March 8, 2018
[A neuropsychoanalytic freudian model of psychic trauma and memory. Theoretical and clinical applications]
Diego Cohen1, Rubén Basili, Isabel Sharpin de Basili
1Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina (APA). Servicio de Admisión Hospital Borda. I Cátedra de Psiquiatría (UBA). diegocohen@fibertel.com.ar
Abstract:
The traumatic memory is conceptualized by means of an amplified Freudian neuropsychoanalytic model using a contemporary memory system based on its contents, conscious and unconscious recollection (explicit and implicit memories) highlighting the validity of the Freudian discoveries. This is then related to the psychoanalytical theories of consciousness, affects and thinking. Particular importance is given to Freud's seduction theory, its relation to memory and the clinical application of these concepts to the basic organization of the personality, together with the relation to Bowlby's concept of emotional deprivation. The development and working trough of trauma is postulated as a vector to make "real" or phantasized trauma unconscious through repression in neurosis, splitting in borderline personality organization, and primitive mechanisms of projection in psychosis.
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