Birth Memories, Birth Trauma, and Anxiety

2016 ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Birth Trauma ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Birth Experience ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Psychoanalytic Experience

In this essay, Winnicott describes clinical examples illustrating fantasies and possible memories of the birth experience. In many child analyses birth play is important. The clues to the understanding of infant psychology, including birth trauma, come through psychoanalytic experience where regression is a feature. When birth material turns up in an analysis in a significant way, the patient is showing signs of being in an extremely infantile state. A child may be playing games that contain birth symbolism, and an adult reports fantasy related consciously or unconsciously to birth. This is not the same as the acting out of memory traces derived from birth experience, which provides the material for study of birth trauma.

The Birth Experience

2016 ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Caesarean Section ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Time Delays ◽  
Birth Trauma ◽  
Birth Experience ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Normal Delivery

In this chapter, Winnicott describes what the stage of being unborn to becoming born might be like for the infant. He suggests that if birth is healthily accomplished, the infant may be able to have the illusion that all was brought about and achieved by himself. He proposes that a caesarean section birth has losses for the baby in terms of normal delivery and that time delays that effect delivery can become sufficiently impinging, creating for that infant a sense of formlessness in time and space which cannot be managed. Winnicott addresses the changeover from not-breathing states in the womb to the newborn’s learning to breathe and also to the newborn’s connecting with the mother’s breathing and then feeling held in a quiet way after birth. He proposes that some patients in analysis have very early body experience memories related to birth trauma and that the study of very early birth-related experience in analysis helps with understanding more severe mental illness, such as the psychoses.

What face familiarity feelings say about the lateralization of specific entities within the core system

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Gainotti
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Memory System ◽  
Core System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Specific Memory ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
The Right

Abstract The target article carefully describes the memory system, centered on the temporal lobe that builds specific memory traces. It does not, however, mention the laterality effects that exist within this system. This commentary briefly surveys evidence showing that clear asymmetries exist within the temporal lobe structures subserving the core system and that the right temporal structures mainly underpin face familiarity feelings.

1375: Contributions of Collagen and Elastin to Urethral Biomechanics: Correlation of Damaged Elastin to Stress Urinary Incontinence Induced by Birth Trauma

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 453-454
Author(s):  
Rachelle L. Prantif ◽  
William C. de Groat ◽  
Donna J. Haworth ◽  
Ronald J. Jankowski ◽  
Michael B. Chancellor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Stress Urinary Incontinence ◽  
Birth Trauma

Retrieval from Memory or Procedural Strategies for Addition Problems

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muriel Fanget ◽  
Catherine Thevenot ◽  
Caroline Castel ◽  
Michel Fayol
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Times ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Verbal Reports ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Simple Addition ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Addition Problem ◽  
Retrieval From Memory ◽  
Calculation Procedures

In this study, we used a paradigm recently developed ( Thevenot, Fanget, & Fayol, 2007 ) to determine whether 10-year-old children solve simple addition problems by retrieval of the answer from long-term memory or by calculation procedures. Our paradigm is unique in that it does not rely on reaction times or verbal reports, which are known to potentially bias the results, especially in children. Rather, it takes advantage of the fact that calculation procedures degrade the memory traces of the operands, so that it is more difficult to recognize them when they have been involved in the solution of an addition problem by calculation rather than by retrieval. The present study sharpens the current conclusions in the literature and shows that, when the sum of addition problems is up to 10, children mainly use retrieval, but when it is greater than 10, they mainly use calculation procedures.

Articulatory Rehearsal Is More Than Refreshing Memory Traces

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoji Nishiyama ◽  
Jun Ukita
Keyword(s):  
Free Recall ◽  
Recall Performance ◽  
Verbal Working Memory ◽  
Verbal Information ◽  
Free Recall Task ◽  
Study Item ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Serial Position Curves

This study examined whether additional articulatory rehearsal induced temporary durability of phonological representations, using a 10-s delayed nonword free recall task. Three experiments demonstrated that cumulative rehearsal between the offset of the last study item and the start of the filled delay (Experiments 1 and 3) and a fixed rehearsal of the immediate item during the subsequent interstimulus interval (Experiments 2 and 3) improved free recall performance. These results suggest that an additional rehearsal helps to stabilize phonological representations for a short period. Furthermore, the analyses of serial position curves suggested that the frequency of the articulation affected the durability of the phonological representation. The significance of these findings as clues of the mechanism maintaining verbal information (i.e., verbal working memory) is discussed.

Birth Trauma

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Winn
Keyword(s):  
Birth Trauma

Witnessing discrimination: Acting out of empathy or anger

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Raspopow ◽  
Kimberly Matheson ◽  
Hymie Anisman
Keyword(s):  
Acting Out

Devereux Adolescent Behavior Rating Scale--Acting Out Behaviors Scale

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yossef S. Ben-Porath ◽  
Carolyn L. Williams ◽  
Craig Uchiyama
Keyword(s):  
Rating Scale ◽  
Adolescent Behavior ◽  
Behavior Rating ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Behavior Rating Scale

Ownership without Legitimacy?

2008 ◽  
pp. 85-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Birth Trauma ◽  
Fair Play ◽  
Different Types

The paper examines the problem of legitimation of the privatization’s outcomes in Russia and provides a critical appraisal of various political proposals for its resolution. The analysis proceeds from a distinction between two different types of ownership illegitimacy: "definite" and "vague" ones. The paper argues that the "vague" illegitimacy that has evolved in Russia is not an absolute obstacle for economic growth but rather an institutional birth trauma which is common for all post-socialist countries and which could be cured only by piecemeal approaching of relationships between "strong" and "weak" economic actors to principles of fair play.

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