Posted by Dinah on January 27, 2007, at 20:00:05
I'm still listening to it, and I'm still finding so many things that just stop me cold in my tracks.
I've got it on audiobook, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to buy it on paper too, so I can highlight and make notes.
I can't even say how many things are resonating with me. Today he was talking about the components of social intelligence, and the neurological underpinnings of them. And I was recognizing which ones I'm really good at, and which ones I'm really bad at. He talked about classes for adults who need remedial classes, but I'm almost positive you wouldn't find any around here. I'd love to go to one.
But one thing he said that struck me with regard to therapy was that each time we take our memories out and put them back, we're neurologically recoding them. And that we can actually reshape our "low road" (amygdala-type) reactions with repeated recoding of our memories. He suggests that this might be how therapy works. We take out the memories, the therapist gives us a different perspective on them perhaps, or perhaps the secure environment of therapy shades them with a layer of safety or less fear, and then we reincode them. But when we do so, they're not the same as they were when we took them out. Or something like that. I need a paper version.
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