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Disrupting Reconsolidation of Fear Memory in Humans by a Noradrenergic β-Blocker
Published on: December 18, 2014
Abstract:
This paper starts from recommendations of Freud and Jung on the desirable attitudes of analysts to their patients, and especially open-mindedness which I have named 'not knowing beforehand'. I use the metaphor of a filing cabinet to illustrate how to empty one's mind and, so to speak, lock up one's knowledge, memory, and desires in that filing cabinet. That gives space for the patient to structure his interview. I illustrate how knowing beforehand can disrupt an interview and how 'filing-cabinet material' will get used when tailored to the interview structure. The metaphor is used for the sake of simplicity. It does not include the complexity of the analytical dialectic.
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