Knox, Jean Margaret;
(2001)
The effect of emotion on memory and perception: An information processing investigation of certain psychodynamic concepts using the Headed Records model.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis investigates the way in which emotion affects memory and perception. The aim is to gain a better understanding and give a more accurate psychoanalytic account of certain clinical phenomena (particularly in borderline patients), characteristic modes of information processing which underlie these phenomena and the effects of emotion on those forms of information-processing. The Headed Records model of memory is described and used to give an information-processing account of the mechanisms by which information is selected, stored in and retrieved from memory and made available to consciousness. The effect of emotion on each stage of the Headed Records retrieval cycle is explored and illustrated with clinical examples. Core psychodynamic theories (classical Freudian, contemporary psychoanalytic, Kleinian, Jungian) are then examined in the light of this Headed Records account of the effect of emotion on memory. Clinical phenomena, classically described in terms of repression, splitting, complexes and dissociation are also analysed by examining the effect of emotion at key points in the retrieval cycle. The areas of inconsistency between the psychodynamic concepts and a Headed Records account of these phenomena are explored and discussed. Psychodynamic theories concerning the effects of psychotherapy are analysed in terms of the Headed Records model and the information-processing account which the latter offers for change. The psychodynamic concept of 'internal objects' is analysed in terms of the mental representations which form the content of certain Headed Records. The formation of 'internal working model' Records is described and the part that these may play in bringing about change in analysis. The clinical phenomena found in borderline patients are described and the Headed Records model is used to give an information-processing account of the ways in which these clinical phenomena may arise and the mechanisms by which they may be modified in analysis.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | The effect of emotion on memory and perception: An information processing investigation of certain psychodynamic concepts using the Headed Records model |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Thesis digitised by ProQuest. |
| Keywords: | Psychology; Memory |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10099564 |
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