This Episode homes in the emotions that trigger maladaptive patterns.
Key Points
Avoidance patterns are shaped more by psychological development at the time they are “invented” than by the nature of the affect being avoided.
Strategies for distancing affects are products of the nonconscious problem
solver function of the mind.
Only recently has it become clear how memories are encoded in the brain
as neural networks defined by enhanced synaptic connections linking
groups of neurons.
Long-term potentiation is an important mechanism of memory formation
in which synapses are enhanced when upstream and downstream neurons
happen to fire simultaneously.
Procedural memory, where many EDPs are stored permanently, is learned
and recalled without effort and is held diffusely in the brain.
The catalog of EDPs includes broad categories of (1) potentially voluntary avoidant thought and behavior, (2) helpers that support acting on avoidant behaviors, and (3) involuntary and unpleasant symptoms that also serve to
distance from affects.
#26 Our Final Podcast: What the Affect Avoidance Model Means to You
#25 Working with Trauma, PTSD, and Dissociation
#24 Digging into Anxiety
#23 Depression, Part 2.
#22 Depression, Part 1
#21 Pride, Guilt, Shame: The Why, How, and What to Do
#20 The Role of Thoughts and How to Work With Them
#19: Handling Emotions in Therapy
#18 Addictions
#17 Behavior Patterns That Avoid Feeling, Continued
#16 Catalog of Pathologies: Behavior to Avoid Feeling
#15 Adjustments to make therapy fit with your cliient
#14 The inner child vs. transference, an important episode
#13 The Therapeutic Relationship
#12 How to Guide Therapy Sessions, Part 2
#11 How to Guide Therapy Sessions, Part 1
#10 How to Conduct the First Session of Talk Therapy
#9 A Clinician's Primer on Psychological Development
#8 Motivation's Role in Therapy
#7 How Relationship Brings Healing
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