Healthy Skepticism Library item: 20322

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Publication type: Journal Article

Epstein S.
Integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious.
Am Psychol 1994; 49:(8):709-24
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/49/8/709/

Abstract:

Cognitive-experiential self-theory integrates the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious by assuming the existence of two parallel, interacting modes of information processing: a rational system and an emotionally driven experiential system. Support for the theory is provided by the convergence of a wide variety of theoretical positions on two similar processing modes; by real-life phenomena—such as conflicts between the heart and the head; the appeal of concrete, imagistic, and narrative representations; superstitious thinking; and the ubiquity of religion throughout recorded history—and by laboratory research, including the prediction of new phenomena in heuristic reasoning.