Creativity via image making is good for affect regulation, particularly for those with neurotic personality organization

Creativity via image makin" rel="nofollow">ing is good for affect regulation, particularly for those with neurotic personality organization Order Description NOTE: Paper must fall within" rel="nofollow">in 12-15 page range (the "Number of pages/words" field on this site did not give an option to select higher than 12 pages). APA style, double-spaced, 12 poin" rel="nofollow">int font. In the paper, be sure to provide a focused discussion of perspectives that are sensitive to cultural and historical particularity and clin" rel="nofollow">inical experience/examples of neurophenomenology and cognitive neuroscience. THIS IS THE DRAFT I HAVE SO FAR: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REVISE AND EXPAND THESE PAGES. YOU WILL FIND THE SOURCE MATERIALS AT THE END - please add 1-2 more scholarly sources that "tie in" rel="nofollow">in" nicely with those listed and add relevant quotations and/or paraphrases to the text. Creativity is good for the psyche and can assist in" rel="nofollow">in affective self-regulation, particularly in" rel="nofollow">in in" rel="nofollow">individuals with neurotic personality organization. The makin" rel="nofollow">ing of images helps those of us who are “tightly wound” to loosen our skein" rel="nofollow">ins and feel more comfortable in" rel="nofollow">in our psychic skin" rel="nofollow">ins. The word imagin" rel="nofollow">ination derives from the Latin" rel="nofollow">in imagin" rel="nofollow">inarium, meanin" rel="nofollow">ing “to picture oneself” (Perdue, 2013). If, as Hillman (2013) states, “the min" rel="nofollow">ind is in" rel="nofollow">in the imagin" rel="nofollow">ination rather than the imagin" rel="nofollow">ination in" rel="nofollow">in the min" rel="nofollow">ind,” then imagin" rel="nofollow">ination is an active force that can in" rel="nofollow">influence and optimize self-regulation via cognitive means. An examin" rel="nofollow">ination of the development and meanin" rel="nofollow">ing of affective self-regulation leads to the work of Schore (2003), who states that “the phenomena of self-regulation. . .represents a potential convergence poin" rel="nofollow">int of psychology and neuroscience” and labels the primary caregiver as “an external psychobiological regulator” for the developin" rel="nofollow">ing nervous system (p. 5). Bein" rel="nofollow">ing able to navigate changes in" rel="nofollow">in affective state transpires as the experience-dependent orbitofrontal system develops and permits “recovery from disruptions of state and the ability to in" rel="nofollow">integrate a sense of self across transitions of state,” thereby creatin" rel="nofollow">ing self-contin" rel="nofollow">inuity (Schore, 2003, p. 24). Both regulated and unregulated experiences of caregivers get “imprin" rel="nofollow">inted and stored in" rel="nofollow">in the orbital prefrontal system. . .as in" rel="nofollow">interactive representations” (Schore, 2003, p. 22). Schore (2012) also explores self-regulation for the psyche, positin" rel="nofollow">ing that it has two processes: in" rel="nofollow">interactive regulation, which in" rel="nofollow">involves “the ability to flexibly regulate psychobiological states of emotions with others in" rel="nofollow">in in" rel="nofollow">interconnected contexts” and autoregulation, or the ability to regulate oneself “apart from others in" rel="nofollow">in autonomous contexts” (p. 76). For in" rel="nofollow">individuals who received fragmented external attunement from primary caregivers yet still developed the ability to self-reflect, Schore contextualizes psychotherapy as the “affect cure” rather than the talkin" rel="nofollow">ing cure (p. 84). Image-makin" rel="nofollow">ing can also constitute a means of regulatin" rel="nofollow">ing the affective states of those whose caregivers may have provided in" rel="nofollow">insufficient or uneven “in" rel="nofollow">interactive repair” from in" rel="nofollow">infancy through early childhood (p. 77). Individuals organized at the neurotic level of personality formation can benefit from the image creatin" rel="nofollow">ing process by bein" rel="nofollow">ing lifted away from the “biased self-processin" rel="nofollow">ing” that leads to sufferin" rel="nofollow">ing via self-distortion (Vago & Silbersweig, 2012, p. 5). Changin" rel="nofollow">ing the stimulus to focus on an imagin" rel="nofollow">inative in" rel="nofollow">inner rhythm proves affirmin" rel="nofollow">ing and offers a “facilitated attentional engagement” (Vag o & Silbersweig, 2012, p. 5). Epstein" rel="nofollow">in (1995) presents the Buddhist wheel of life and its six realms of existence as a model of the neurotic min" rel="nofollow">ind. Accordin" rel="nofollow">ing to this paradigm, “the sufferer’s perspective determin" rel="nofollow">ines whether a given realm is a vehicle for awakenin" rel="nofollow">ing or for bondage” (Epstein" rel="nofollow">in, 1995, p. 16). In workin" rel="nofollow">ing with this in" rel="nofollow">intricate image and its six realms of existence, Epstein" rel="nofollow">in (1995) stirs the clin" rel="nofollow">inical imagin" rel="nofollow">ination in" rel="nofollow">into a respite from the often relentless lin" rel="nofollow">inearity of psychological theory. Each of the six realms, Epstein" rel="nofollow">in (1995) advises, “becomes a metaphor for a different psychological state” (p. 17), and the entire wheel stands as “a representation of neurotic sufferin" rel="nofollow">ing” (p. 18.). References Epstein" rel="nofollow">in, M. (1995). Thoughts without a thin" rel="nofollow">inker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist perspective. NY: Basic Books. Hillman, J. (2013). “Image and soul: The poetic basis of min" rel="nofollow">ind.” Archetypal Psychology. Putman, CONN: Sprin" rel="nofollow">ing Publications. Perdue, K. (2013). “Imagin" rel="nofollow">ination.” Retrieved from https://www.csmt.uchicago.edu Schore, A.N. (2003). The experience-dependent maturation of the regulatory system in" rel="nofollow">in the Orbital Prefrontal Cortex and the origin" rel="nofollow">in of developmental psychopathology. In Affect dysregulation and disorders of the self. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. Pages 5-53. Schore, A.N. (2015). Right brain" rel="nofollow">in affect regulation: An essential mechanism of developmental trauma. dissociation and psychotherapy. In D. Fosha, D.J. Siegel, and M. Solomon (eds). The healin" rel="nofollow">ing power of emotion: Affective neuroscience, development and clin" rel="nofollow">inical practice. (pp. 112-144. New York: W.W.Norton. Vago, D.R. & Silbersweig, D.A. (2012). Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self- transcendence (SAR-T): A framework for understandin" rel="nofollow">ing the neurobiological mechanisms of min" rel="nofollow">indfulness. Frontiers of Neuroscience, (6). 296, DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00296.