Memory x

Neuropsychoanalysis
Anders Chan, M.S.
Why
- Memory story
- Working memory
- Hold immediately, recall from long —> achieve a goal
- Working memory capacity
- Take what we know —> leverage to satisfy current goal
Why
- High WM capacity
- Good story tellers
- Solve and do well in standardized tests
- High levels of writing ability
- High reasoning levels
Play
Goal

Connect short term memory —> object relations

What have we talked about?
Types of Memory
- Motor memory
- Sensory
- Cognitive
- Musical
- Genetic
- Historical
Types of Memory
- Short term (operational)
- Long-term
- Explicit/Declarative
- Episodic
- Semantic
- Implicit/nondeclarative
- Priming
- Procedural
- Affective
Types of Memory
- Affective
- Constancy, rhythm, musicality
- First representations
- Stored before we can use words & symbols
- Enters into early unconscious part of personality
- How we establish relationships with others
Psychological
- Sensory —> short term —> long term semantic
Molecular Biology
- Synaptic pruning
- Proteins expressing genes on synapses
- Kandel (2001)
- Dopamine
- Future research
- Psychotherapy —> proteins —> synapses —> circuits —>
change in pathology
Neuroscience
Neuroscience
Psychoanalysis
- Unconscious
- Hypnosis, dreams, slips, wishes and fantasies, repression
- Structural
- Id, ego, and superego
- Freud - Cognitive psychologist limited by technology of his
time
Psychoanalysis
- Early experiences (attachment)
- Object relations
- Trauma/repressed memories
- Not encoded by the hippocampus
- Stress —> high levels of adrenal steroids —> shuts down
hippocampus
- Early memories before age 3
- Explicit memory not developed yet
- Only implicit memory (not repressed)
Summary
- Layers to our brain
- Emotional vs Rational
- Anxieties and phobias
- Create new memories
- Behaviors, relationships, catharsis
- Builds into concept of relationships
Use?
- Sleep
- When we code memories
- Tap into unconscious
- Integrate old and new ideas
- Insight
- Of Irrational reactions
- Huge part of our brain where we store experiences we can’t
even recall
- Understanding