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Repression is associated in the literature with terms such as non-expression, emotional control, rationality, anti-emotionality, defensiveness and restraint. Whether these terms are synonymous with repression, indicate a variation, or are essentially different from repression is uncertain. To clarify this obscured view on repression, this paper ...
Abstract. Over a century ago, Freud proposed that memories can be forgotten by pushing them into the unconscious, a process called repression. The existence of repression has remained controversial for more than a century, in part because of its strong coupling with trauma and the ethical and practical difficulties of studying this process in ...
- Michael C. Anderson
- 2006
Jan 1, 2020 · Repression is a defense mechanism whereby unpleasure-provoking mental processes, such as morally disagreeable impulses and painful memories, are actively prevented from entering conscious awareness. Repression is a central concept in classical psychoanalysis and provides the basis for explaining psychopathology in terms of psychodynamic ...
- Simon Boag
- simon.boag@mq.edu.au
Feb 26, 2021 · Recent research on trauma, attachment and neuroscience point at a clear divide in psychopathology between disorders based on repression, (as in Freud's repression model) and psychopathologies structured on dissociative mechanisms, a response to severe interpersonal trauma. Pathologies based on repression are typical of a neurotic structure, (with better developmental outcome), while ...
- Clara Mucci
- clara.mucci@unibg.it
- 2021
Over a century ago, Freud proposed that memories can be forgotten by pushing them into the unconscious, a process called repression. The existence of repression has remained controversial for more than a century, in part because of its strong coupling with trauma and the ethical and practical difficulties of studying this process in controlled laboratory experiments. In the popular media ...
Jan 1, 2006 · Download Citation | Repression: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach | Over a century ago, Freud proposed that memories can be forgotten by pushing them into the unconscious, a process called repression.
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Nov 21, 2010 · Therapeutic interventions on patients suffering from symptoms due to repressed conflicts or traumatic experiences require an understanding of the mechanisms of repression and dissociation, not only on the psychological but also on the neurophysiological level (for the general benefit of cognitive neuroscience for understanding cognition see Henson, 2005; Axmacher et al., 2009).
