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    The document discusses how mirror neurons in the prefrontal cortex contribute to implicit procedural learning and how this relates to developmental systems self psychology. It suggests that intentionally reviving old traumatic experiences may reinforce maladaptive patterns, while revival in the context of a supportive relationship can allow for positive new learning and understanding.

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    J Am Acad Psychoanal




    . 2000 Fall;28(3):409-30.
    doi: 10.1521/jaap.1.2000.28.3.409.

    Mirror neurons, procedural learning,


    and the positive new experience: a
    developmental systems self psychology
    approach
    N S Wolf 1, M Gales, E Shane, M Shane
    Affiliations expand

     PMID: 11109223

     DOI: 10.1521/jaap.1.2000.28.3.409

    Abstract
    In summary, we are impressed with the existence of a mirror neuron system in the
    prefrontal cortex that serves as part of a complex neural network, including afferent and
    efferent connections to the limbic system, in particular the amygdala, in addition to the
    premotor and motor cortex. We think it is possible to arrive at an integration that
    postulates the mirror neuron system and its many types of associated multimodal neurons
    as contributing significantly to implicit procedural learning, a process that underlies a
    range of complex nonconscious, unconscious, preconscious and conscious cognitive
    activities, from playing musical instruments to character formation and traumatic
    configurations. This type of brain circuitry may establish an external coherence with
    developmental systems self psychology which implies that positive new experience is
    meliorative and that the intentional revival of old-old traumatic relational configurations
    might enhance maladaptive procedural patterns that would lead to the opposite of the
    intended beneficial change. When analysts revive traumatic transference patterns for the
    purpose of clarification and interpretation, they may fail to appreciate that such traumatic
    transference patterns make interpretation ineffective because, as we have stated above,
    the patient lacks self-reflection under such traumatic conditions. The continued plasticity
    and immediacy of the mirror neuron system can contribute to positive new experiences
    that promote the formation of new, adaptive, implicit-procedural patterns. Perhaps this
    broadened repertoire in the patient of ways of understanding interrelational events
    through the psychoanalytic process allows the less adaptive patterns ultimately to become
    vestigial and the newer, more adaptive patterns to emerge as dominant. Finally, as we have
    stated, we believe that the intentional transferential revival of trauma (i.e., the old-old
    relational configuration) may not contribute to therapeutic benefit. In contrast, the revival
    of trauma in the old-new configuration (i.e., in the presence of a helpful other who can
    reduce anxiety and foster eventual positive new experience) can be beneficial, as trauma
    research has demonstrated. This is the process that promotes new implicit-procedural
    learning, new-new relational configurations, and a richer understanding of the self
    narrative.

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