On Memory & Anamnese
Overview:
On Memory, Anamnesis in Plato’s Meno & Phaedo, Traumatic Memories
PART 1: Videolectures
Videolecture 1: On Memory
Videolecture 2: On the Theory of Recollection
Videolecture 3: Bessel van der Kolk on three Ways Trauma Can Change the Brain
PART 2: Study Material
- On Memory (Notes)
- Memory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Anamnesis in Plato’s Meno and Phaedo by Allen
- On Traumatic Memory
- Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories: A New Treatment for PTSD
- Traumatic Memories are not Necessarily Accurate
PART 3: Self-Study Material.
- Plato’s Meno
- Plato’s Phaedo
- Autobiographical memory and symptoms of PTSD
- Soul Migrations: Traumatic and Spiritual (The paper will help you make a good revision of material examined in previous lessons -of course from the writer’s perspective- and reflect on the impact of trauma. Perhaps you would like to focus on the chapter on soul retrieval. However in the next lessons, we will also have the opportunity to share more on trauma and stress and the lifelong impact.
PART 4: Suggestions for your Self-Assessment/ Reflection Lifeline
Read Plato’s Phaedo and write the main points that are of great significance. For each of them, make a comment and provide your own understanding as to how it could be of meaningful use in psychotherapy.
You know how those in particular who spend their time studying contradiction in the end believe themselves to be very wise and that they alone have understood that there is no soundness or reliability in any object or in any argument.. it would be pitiable when a true and reliable argument, and one that can be understood, if a man who has dealt with such arguments as appear at one time true, and another time untrue, should not blame himself or his own lack of skill but, because of his distress, in the end gladly shift the blame away from himself to the arguments, and spend the rest of his life hating and reviling reasoned discussion and so be deprived of truth and knowledge of reality.
(Plato, Phaedo, pp 128)