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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.
Posted by sunnydays on January 27, 2007, at 20:46:46
In reply to Social Intelligence, posted by Dinah on January 27, 2007, at 20:00:05
That sounds really really interesting. I like that idea about therapy. I wonder if there have been any studies done about that? The whole idea of memories and how we store them and things like that fascinate me (and scare me, sometimes).
sunnydays
Posted by Dis Traught on January 28, 2007, at 2:30:10
In reply to Social Intelligence, posted by Dinah on January 27, 2007, at 20:00:05
Hi, That one goes on my b-day wish list. Thanks for the tip:)
Penny
Posted by Scentedgarden on January 28, 2007, at 5:57:35
In reply to Social Intelligence, posted by Dinah on January 27, 2007, at 20:00:05
hi dinah, this sounds like somehting i need too.
my lovely therapist has told me im very good at some things and need alot of help with other things...
but she has never in all the time as far as i recall told me what they are exactly...
i need so much social intelligence.
i see how badly im dealing with this ending...
im a mess basically...i waken up and burts into tears...sore painful aching in my soul.. i
shouldnt share that with anyone really as it will put them off me...
i need to make freinds but i cant in this state be normal as she is on my mind ..
i have even thought of********* ...well i cant say it really but, wishing i couldnt feel any more but tht would be too drastic..
maybe i should stop seeing her...
sorry this is running into a diferent thread from your lovely social intelligence.. please accept my apology..and please tell me how do i ask for help on here?
someone i can babble who will babblemail me back..as i have so much to share about her marriage ..and my feeelings....i dont want to make loadz of threads, and i dont know if its ok to stick to the one thread i started yesterday...is it okay...what will i do?
i feel terrible
HELP ME PLS..sorry im inappropriate right now...
crying
sg
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