On 3/20/07, Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Cognitive therapy (probably) works _precisely_ by really eliminating those [bad] memories. The concept of repression is grounded in what is no longer a tenable conception of how memory works. Clearly the neurological 'discovery' is potentially dangerous under a repressive social order -- but it does offer some possibility of actually _curing_ depression. Controlling/'curing' depression depends on changing one's thinking patterns (which would have to include 'deleting' some memories, whether by therapy, drugs, or other method.
cognitive therapy, as I understand it, does not eliminate memories as much as teaching the patient to reframe them. So instead of being depressed by the rancid butter, I could decide that it was silly to buy it in the first place and that the whole thing was a lark. Supposedly, anti-depressant psycho-meds can reinforce this process of reframing. -- Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
