9 Postnotes right brain
10-26-6
COPIED FROM SCHORE     chapter 1 affect regulation
“This prefrontal region comes to act in the capacity of an executive control function for the entire right cortex, the hemisphere that modulates affect, nonverbal communication, and unconscious processes.  Early object relational experiences are not only registered in the deep unconscious, they influence the development of […]

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PRENOTES TIME 8
10-14-6
“Furthermore, the elaboration of autonoetic consciousness permits patients to reflect on the past, understand the present, and help actively shape the future.  Such mentalizing reflective dialogue is also a fundamental component of secure attachments.  Indi- (siegel/tdm/297) viduals with histories of disorganized attachments can thus become freed from the “prison of the present,” in […]

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PRENOTES ch44 Child’s Brain
10-13-6
from Siegel’s chapter 8 on Interpersonal Connection
“Allan Schore’s work on affect regulation provides an extensive review of the neurobiology of emotional development.  This section highlights some of Schore’s views and integrates them with the framework for emotion regulation proposed in Chapter 7.  (siegel/tdm/278)”
“Children need to be able to regulate their bodily and […]

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PRENOTES ch21 Trauma
10-13-06
TRAUMA AND GRIEF
From below
“Unresolved trauma or loss leaves the individual with a deep sense of incoherence in autonoetic consciousness, which tries to make sense of the past, organize the present, and chart out the future.  This lack of resolution can produce lasting effects throughout the lifespan and influence self-organization across the generations.  (siegel/tdm/297)”
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below […]

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BRAIN NOTES 8
10-13-6
“The orbitofrontal cortex – the part of the brain just behind the eyes and located at a strategic spot at the top of the emotional limbic system, next to the “higher” associational cortex responsible for various forms of thought and consciousness – plays an important role in affect regulation.  (siegel/tdm/280)”
“This area of the […]

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DISSOCIATION NOTES 6
9-24-6
(named 6 because is being formed in folder for manuscript 6)
“At times, the mind cannot organize itself effectively in response to experiences.  Such experiences are traumatizing, in that they overwhelm the mind’s ability to adapt….in the case of disorganized attachment, some interpersonal experiences result in the mind’s becoming unable to form a cohesive […]

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Chapter 51 Regu con’t
10-12-06
Regulation continued
[Siegel talks a lot in this part about disorganization]
“The capacity to regulate the appraisal and arousal processes of the mind is fundamental to self-organization; therefore, emotion regulation is at the core of the self.  The acquisition of self-regulation emerges from dyadic relationships early in life.  Attachment studies suggest that the type […]

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Chapter 49 INTERPERSONAL SYSTEMS AND DYADIC STATES OF MIND

(this is from the last part of Siegel’s chapter on states of mind beginning on page 232)
“The mind of one person, A, organizes itself on the basis of both internal and external constraints.  Internal constraints are determined by constitutional features and experience.  External constraints include the […]

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