Commentary: The Neural Bases of Emotion Regulation

Frontiers in Psychology

Timothy R. Rice¹ 

关键词: defense mechanisms;    implicit emotion regulation;    psychodynamic psychotherapy;    psychoanalysis;    child development;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00476

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Amit Etkin, Christian Büchel, and James Gross make a valuable contribution in their article “The neural bases of emotion regulation” in the November 2015 issue of Nature reviews: Neuroscience (Etkin et al., 2015). Their review article concludes a process of gradual elevation of implicit emotion regulation to an equal footing with explicit emotion regulation. Whereas, explicit processes of emotion regulation refers to those that demand conscious, effortful application, implicit refers to those that proceed automatically and unconsciously. In this commentary, I suggest that the increased recognition and neural definition of implicit emotion regulation processes offers a unique opportunity for psychodynamic psychotherapy. The postulated equivalence of defense mechanisms with implicit emotion regulation (Rice and Hoffman, 2014) extends an opportunity to ground a key psychodynamic construct in defined neural correlates.

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