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Teasing 10 threads fromEric Kandel’s…

Thread 1:

A fundamental principle of dynamic psychology is that the unconscious never lies.

(pg. 25)

Thread 2:

Accidents, slips of the tongue, misspellings, failures of memory – each has a coherent and meaningful relationship to the rest of one’s psychic life.

(pg. 39)

Thread 3:

Learning and memory are central to our very identity. They make us who we are.

(pg. 116)

Thread 4:

I learned from experience that there are many situations that can’t be decided on cold facts alone. One ultimately has to trust one’s unconscious, one’s instincts, one’s creative urge.(pg. 149)

Thread 5:

Listen to the patient, not the literature.

(pg. 152)

Chinese Symbol for Listening

Thread 6:

Day Science is rational, logical and pragmatic. Night Science is a workshop of the possible. Hypotheses take the form of vague pre- sentiments, of hazy sensa- tions.(pg. 240)

Thread 7:

Recall of memory is a creative process. What the brain stores is thought to be only a core memory. Upon recall, this core memory is then elaborated upon with subtractions, additions, deletions and distortions.

(pg. 281)

Thread 8:

Built into the neural pathways of the brain are complex rules of guessing; they allow the brain to extract information from impoverished patterns. The brain is an ambi- guity-resolution machine par excellence!(pg. 297)

Thread 9:

Our sensory systems are hypothesis genera- tors. We confront the world neither directly nor precisely. Nerve fibers are not high fidelity record- ers. They accen- tuate certain features, neglect others.(pg. 302)

Thread 10:

Unconsciously perceived threats disproportionally affect people with high background anxiety, whereas consciously per- ceived threats activate the fight- or-flight response in everyone.

(pg. 387)

Image Credits:

Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 3 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/Aspects-of-your-unconscious-61411124

Slide 12 - http://www.theinclusionsolution.me/category/stereotype-threats/

Slide 2 - https://speakerpedia.com/speakers/eric-kandel

Slide 6 - http://www.seeker.com/shots-of-awe-the-creative-urge-1792462498.html

Slide 5 - http://www.deviantart.com/art/s-e-c-r-e-t-83688742

Slide 11 - https://www.pinterest.com/explore/distortion-art/

Slide 10 - http://www.claredegraaf.com/2016/11/07/second-guessing-god/

Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

Slide 9 - http://lens.elifesciences.org/01834/index.html

Slide 8 - http://en.alukah.net/Thoughts_Knowledge/0/1896/

Slide 7 - http://bit.ly/2cKA5u7

Slide 4 - http://www.andreacatton.co.uk/2013/12/10-unfortunate-tattoo-misspellings/

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