Alpha synchronization as a brain model for unconscious defense: An overview of the work of Howard Shevrin and his team.
Howard Shevrin and his team have developed a stringent subliminal priming methodology, which experimentally approximates a situation of an internal, mental triggering of unconscious defense. Through a series of four studies they thus are able to bring evidence for this type of unconscious defense. W...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Psychoanalysis Vol. 98; no. 5; pp. 1443 - 1474 |
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Oct2017
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