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Clusters of neurons in the brainstem also come into play when certain conditions seem to require a rapid mobilization of energy distribution throughout the body and brain. This so-called fight-flight-freeze array of responses is responsible for our survival at times of danger.

While our intellects often override our natural instincts, they do not drive the traumatic reaction.

Le premier point d’achoppement entre Jung et Freud porte sur l’importance accordée par ce dernier à la sexualité. Si Jung adhère à la théorie freudienne du refoulement (on refoule dans l’inconscient une idée inacceptable ou un trauma trop violent), il récuse l’idée freudienne que tout refoulement est d’origine sexuelle. Il est persuadé que d’autres

So now we have three models of the mind. Plato said that reason ought to be the master, even if philosophers are the only ones who can reach a high level of mastery.9 Hume said that reason is and ought to be the servant of the passions. And Jefferson gives us a third option, in which reason and sentiment are (and ought to be) independent co-rulers,

It was Jung and Bleuler who put Freud on the scientific map, not the other way around.

In one study of brain-damaged patients by University of Iowa neurologist Steven Anderson, pathological collectors did not differ from a group of noncollectors (who had been assessed for the purposes of comparison) on a range of normal abilities, but all the extreme collectors had suffered damage to the mesial prefrontal areas of the brain. This reg

the brainstem is the arbiter of whether we respond to threats either by mobilizing our energy for combat or for flight, or by freezing in helplessness, collapsing in the face of an overwhelming situation. But whichever of these responses is chosen, when we are in survival mode our reactivity makes it quite challenging, if not outright impossible, t

the connection between the amygdala and the PFC explains much of the individual differences in emotional regulation.