Distinguishing the Eidetic Image from Memory and other Images

1. Distinguishingthe Eidetic Image from Memory and other Images

2. Eidetic Image • Imprints in our mind of real historical events • Encoded and stored in its entirety as it was perceived at the time • A unified perception which contains all of the original event • Makes the event accessible to change • Produced by an interaction of mind and body • Creates movement (imagination) • Offers new information • Changes physiology An Eidetic Image can correct errors in Memory

3. Memory Image • Is a product of mental processing • Is a recall of a perception • Is a subset of experience • Does not change when repeated • Does not generate the original experience • Creates same feeling over and over • Is “stuck” Memory is often inaccurate and it is ALWAYS incomplete.

4. Other types of images • Fantasy- constructed from thinking, often with a goal of escaping current experience • Guided Imagery – directed from external sources toward a goal which is often to find or change meaning. Involves some kind of interpretation by the guide to set the goal. • Dreams – mixture of events of the day, related emotions, anxiety or thoughts about a situation. • Daydreams – constructed from thinking, emotions are secondary to cognition. • Symbolic Imagery – extracted from experience into common meaning, ex: “the Good Mother” or one of the 12 archetypes of the Zodiac offered by Carl Jung.

5. Other Products of Perception • Thoughts • Behaviors • Interpretations • Beliefs • Symbols

6. Markers of the ISMHow to tell Image from thought • Image: Describes of what is seen. Subject is describing what they see, making an observation, uses words such as “I see”, “it looks like a..” Its round, covered with moss…”. You can see it too from the subject’s description. • Somatic response: Describes how their body feels in response, uses words such as “I feel…” “I’m scared” , describing physical experience • Meaning: Describes a product of processing, often a thought about what is being seen, “I don’t like moss”, or an opinion, a belief, or interpretation

7. ISM VARIATIONS • ISM: Seeing is connected to somatic response thought follows (creates positive reality, movement toward growth and health) • IMS: Seeing is interpreted by a thought, somatic response is to the thought • SIM: Have a feeling, connect an image to that feeling, develop an interpretation from the image (Often the pattern in PTSD) • SMI: Feeling state is interpreted by thinking, image comes from interpretation (hypochrodriachial interpretation of feeling state produces ) • MIS: Thought creates an Image, somatic response is to a false image (the thinking lifestyle) • MSI: Thought-Somatic Response- Seeing is produced by feeling

8. ISM Variations Examples • ISM: Sees obstacle, feels exhilaration going around, thinks, “I can do this” • IMS: Sees obstacle, thinks “I’ll never be able to do that”, feels scared. • SIM: Experiences tension when asked to see an obstacle in the running stream. Begins to see negative images associated with the obstacle, remembers feeling tense when those memories occurred. • SMI: feeling tired and stressed, creates negative interpretation of the request to run through the obstacle, and forms a wrong image of what is being expected, can’t get through the obstacle. • MIS: thinks supervisor is being critical, sees only criticism and disapproval which creates physical tension • MSI: student thinks s/he is unprepared for exam, reacts to test with negative emotional response, which reduces ability to answer questions

9. Coding ISM • Segment transcript into units of single statements. • Determine if each statement describes an Image, a Somatic Response, or a Meaning. • Place the letter (I) (S) or (M) to the right of the statement

10. Assignment: • Segment a transcript into single statement units • Identify I-S-M markers associated with each statement • Observe flow vs stuck image