TY - CHAP
T1 - Memory Reconsolidation, Trace Reassociation and the Freudian Unconscious
AU - Alberini, Cristina M.
AU - Ansermet, Francois
AU - Magistretti, Pierre
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH074736, R01 MH065635), National Institute of Drugs of Abuse (R21 CEBRA DA017672), and the Hirschl, NARSAD, and Philoctetes Foundations to Cristina M. Alberini. The authors are grateful to the Agalma Foundation in Geneva for providing support for studies on the relationship between neuroscience and psychoanalysis. We also thank all the members of the Alberini laboratory for their invaluable contributions to the work discussed in this chapter and for their helpful feedback on the manuscript.
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PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Memory traces can become labile when retrieved. This has intrigued not only neuroscientists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists but also clinicians who work with memories to treat psychopathologies, such as psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts question whether the treatments based on re-evoking memories engage reconsolidation and how treatments may work and be effective with reconsolidation processes. However, reconsolidation may not easily occur in older or very strong, consolidated memories, which are, in fact, those deeply rooted in most maladaptive behaviors, and most animal reconsolidation studies have been done on memories that are only days old. Hence, the questions deepen into many more complex layers, asking the following: How are memories formed and retrieved and in part become unconscious? How does retrieval in a therapeutic setting change those traces? Here, we propose some hypotheses based on neuroscientific knowledge to begin explaining the bases of Freudian unconscious and speculate on how memory traces and Freudian unconscious intersect.
AB - Memory traces can become labile when retrieved. This has intrigued not only neuroscientists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists but also clinicians who work with memories to treat psychopathologies, such as psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts question whether the treatments based on re-evoking memories engage reconsolidation and how treatments may work and be effective with reconsolidation processes. However, reconsolidation may not easily occur in older or very strong, consolidated memories, which are, in fact, those deeply rooted in most maladaptive behaviors, and most animal reconsolidation studies have been done on memories that are only days old. Hence, the questions deepen into many more complex layers, asking the following: How are memories formed and retrieved and in part become unconscious? How does retrieval in a therapeutic setting change those traces? Here, we propose some hypotheses based on neuroscientific knowledge to begin explaining the bases of Freudian unconscious and speculate on how memory traces and Freudian unconscious intersect.
KW - Freud
KW - consolidation
KW - memory
KW - psychoanalysis
KW - reconsolidation
KW - retrieval
KW - unconscious
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U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-386892-3.00014-7
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-386892-3.00014-7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84882685255
SN - 9780123868930
SP - 293
EP - 312
BT - Memory Reconsolidation
PB - Elsevier
ER -