In which I discuss how to recognize the #limbicsystem in #psychotherapy and in life. While we are talking to a client about the things that concern them, there is a more basic, perhaps primitive mode of thinking that is ever present influencing that person's thoughts and actions just as much as and perhaps more than what they are presenting. We can either pay attention to it or adhere to what is being presented. This is a reminder to #therapists and their #clients that a question is a question and is not necessarily a hint and that there may be any number of ways to understand the story of our lives. Alternative views are not a threat, but an invitation. The #lizardbrain may become frightened in response to questions that elicit #personalobservations. In a nonthreatening place a properly asked question may provide an opening to #selfexploration and to the #psyche.

#TheSnake is the origin of #Personality. We thought we knew what a #PersonalityDisorder is only to learn that we have never defined what personality is. We can discuss, even define symptoms related to personality disorders, but we can't say what it is in #HumanExperience that makes us the way we are, why one turns out to be a #Psychopath and another a #BorderlinePersonality. Each of us equally, even the most normal, feel ourselves to be unique. Perhaps at a very early age, we find ourselves at a crossroads leading to a diversity of experiences that separate us from others, leading us to a sense of our #Individuality that we feel is our primary interest to protect, This is about cortical learning, but with the recognition that our deepest learning would occur much earlier in the #Limbicsystem. #StarWars is who we are. It is the human experience.

This is episode 13 with the artwork included. Sorry for any inconvenience due to my error.

How the #limbicsystem may contribute to our cognitive experience not only as a means of passive, scientific observation, but as an active contributor to our learning and experience. #Cognitivepsychology is used to interpret how life events affect us as we go from passive observer, however scientific, to active interpreters of our own experience and vicariously through others. How this might be what was intended by the psychiatrist #ViktorFrankl in his theory of #Logotherapy In which I ask the question, What might the limbic system be doing when it is not reacting to influences that are intended to cause us #fear, #pleasure or pander to our basest needs? What might the limbic system be doing when we are not actively using it?All AI is credited when it appears in the discussion. The conclusions are all my own. AI is only used for clarity and to develop content.

How the #limbicsystem may contribute to our cognitive experience not only as a means of passive, scientific observation, but as an active contributor to our learning and experience. #Cognitivepsychology is used to interpret how life events affect us as we go from passive observer, however scientific, to active interpreters of our own experience and vicariously through others. How this might be what was intended by the psychiatrist #ViktorFrankl in his theory of #Logotherapy In which I ask the question, What might the limbic system be doing when it is not reacting to influences that are intended to cause us #fear, #pleasure or pander to our basest needs? What might the limbic system be doing when we are not actively using it?All AI is credited when it appears in the discussion. The conclusions are all my own. AI is only used for clarity and to develop content.

In which I present the notion that the #unconscious mind doesn't only express itself in our #dreams or when we are not fully aware or in control of what we are doing, but that it is an ongoing participant of our daily life and in our thinking. I argue that it is the basis for what we regard as #internalconflicts because it may not be in agreement with who we perceive ourselves to be and may take an oppositional stand as we refuse to accept certain aspects of ourselves that are discordant with who we believe we are and who we would like to be. I express this idea more fully and dramatically in my novel, Spiders Kill Their Young, available on Amazon that received an excellent Kirkus review, I once again discuss #storytelling as the best medium to understand human problems in context and further examine why this is so.

Applying #instinct to #psychodiagnostics. Incorporating feelings in the process of diagnosis. Going beyond #ActiveListening Theory to a more indepth form of listening.

#Psychsurvivalist What is a #psychiatricdiagnosis anyway? Is it the name of a disease? Is it mental? Biological? Is it a negative character assessment? Or is it simply name calling, a way to ostracize a person with whom we find fault for any reason or for no reason at all because we just don't like them? This episode explores several reasons for attaching a #clinicallabel, although there may be others I haven't thought of yet. This is the beginning of an answer to the very common question, #Am-I-crazy? Going to the cover art, do you ask the educated doctor or do you ask the monolith that symbolizes the repository of experience? Maybe we are looking in the wrong place for our answer.

This episode is a clinical comparison of AI functioning with human brain processes, how they are alike and how they differ. The unfortunate, creepy conclusion is that each is mirroring and replicating the other, reenforcing each other even in destructive ways.