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Psychopathology and the Unconscious: Should We Explore the Unconscious Today?
Since Freud's death, and due to the the success and popularization of Cognitive-Behavioral therapy, there has been a significant anti-Freudian movement among American clinicians that is not entirely over. Freud's ideas about women, gender, his unfamiliarity with cultural variations of psychosexual development, and his insistence in the interpretation of unconscious materials made many clinicians reject all his perspectives out of hand, including the very existence of the unconscious. However, a decade ago, major advances in behavioral neuroscience have revealed that many mental processes occur at the unconscious level and affect how humans behave, think, and feel about themselves and about the world. Concretely, this means that there is clear evidence today that, despite the eccentricity of some of the earlier Freudian concepts and their major gender and cultural biases, most of what Freud said about unconscious processes was accurate. Share your perspectives about exploring the unconscious though psychotherapy. Read the article proposed this week entitled, "The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious" and cite it.
Task
Question A. Unconscious processes are innately part of human cognitive processing. Do you think that the unconscious should be addressed in the counseling or psychotherapy process?
Question B. How could a clinician use a psychotherapy or counseling session to address the unconscious?
Question C. Do you think that there are potential risks in revealing the unconscious content inherent to our cognitive processing? Some biological psychologists think that even if a great deal of what is stored in our mind at an unconscious level does not have a particular meaning. Do you agree with this assumption?
Question D. What do you think that would be the most efficient treatment to expose unconscious content? Hypnosis? Talk therapy? Meditation and mindfulness? Some other treatment? Whatever your perspective, please explain why using academic references.