Thinking changes the brain.
Spain, 2011-December last December 17 took place a teórico-clÃnica day organized by the Madrid Psychoanalytical Association and the Institute of Psychiatry of the Hospital ClÃnico San Carlos of Madrid under the direction of Professor López Ibor and DRA. Reneses. Dr. Glen o. Gabbard, psychoanalyst, and one of the leading international authorities in the treatment of disorders limit of personality presented their ideas about this kind of mental pathology.
The limit personality disorders are serious pathologies affecting the psyche and manifested in persistent patterns of alterations in cognition, affectivity, interpersonal activity and control of impulses and manifested in areas such as alterations and instability in relationships, ranging from excessive reliance or excessive retreat, instability in the identity and self-image, impulsivity on very diverse as food items, drugs, sex, shopping or risk, emotional instability, excessive anger, feelings of persecution, autoagresiones, or feelings of emptiness that can lead to suicide attempts, fights or aggression. Sometimes manifest as severe social retractions, grandiose sense of himself, disabling obsessions, or contempt and violation of the rights of other
el Dr. Gabbard, which is internationally recognized to address the limits personality disorders treatment combining psychoanalytic psychotherapy with criteria neuroscientists, developed this innovative perspective in detail before an audience of more than 250 psychoanalysts, psychiatrists and psychologists.
explained how patients affected by limits personality disorders are affected by a State of stress than the rest because they mistakenly interpret neutral attitudes of those who surround them perceived them as adverse and also would have a special ability to detect barely reliable persons, which puts them in a position of uncertainty, stress and alert permanent. This would lead to alterations in brain neurotransmission systems and shortcomings in the proper functioning of certain brain structures, such as the amygdala and prefrontal lobes. Gabbard advocated a combination of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psicofarmacológica attention popr contributed knowledge-based neuroscience, one hundred years later gave reason to the ideas of Freud, the creator of psychoanalysis.
Thinking changes the brain, he concluded.
