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Findings of Wilder Penfield
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Findings of Wilder Penfield
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Eric Berne used Wilder Penfield's findings to conceptualise and define ego states.
Dr. Wilder Penfield (b.1891-d.1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He began a series of scientific experiments in 1951 on the brains of live and conscious human subjects. He proved, that by touching a part of the brain (the temporal cortex) with a weak electrical probe, the brain could be caused to 'play back' certain past experiences, and the feelings associated with them. The patients 'replayed' these events and their feelings despite not normally being able to recall them using their conventional (conscious) memories.
Dr. Wilder Penfield (b.1891-d.1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He began a series of scientific experiments in 1951 on the brains of live and conscious human subjects. He proved, that by touching a part of the brain (the temporal cortex) with a weak electrical probe, the brain could be caused to 'play back' certain past experiences, and the feelings associated with them. The patients 'replayed' these events and their feelings despite not normally being able to recall them using their conventional (conscious) memories.
Penfield's experiments went on over several years, and resulted in wide acceptance of the following conclusions:
- The human brain acts like a tape recorder, and whilst we may 'forget' experiences, the brain still has them recorded.
- Along with events the brain also records the associated feelings, and both feelings and events stay locked together.
- It is possible for a person to exist in two states simultaneously (because patients replaying hidden events and feelings could talk about them objectively at the same time).
- Hidden experiences when replayed are vivid, and affect how we feel at the time of replaying.
- Subjectsw recall past experiences with the 'meaning' and 'understanding' attached to it at the time prevailing.
- There is a certain connection between mind and body, i.e. the link between the biological and the psychological, eg a psychological fear of spiders and a biological feeling of nausea.
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