In the area of psychoanalysis, Miller examined Freudian concepts from a learning perspective, specifically stimulus-response theory. \u00a0Notions including frustration and aggression, approach-avoidance conflict behavior and displacement were meticulously investigated and finally explained via learning terminology.<\/p>\n
The current section provides a detailed description of Miller’s foray in to psychoanalysis and reveals the process used in his attempt to integrate psychoanalysis and learning theory. In addition, a list of published works related to this content is featured.<\/p>\n
In his Ph.D. dissertation in 1935 Miller demonstrated that mental acts such as thoughts are themselves responses that function as response-produced cues<\/em> to which other responses can be associated, as in mental counting when thinking one number is the cue to thinking the next.\u00a0 Miller noted that anything which inhibits a thought (such as anxiety) can therefore block the next thought to which it is a cue from occurring – shades of Freud’s theory of repression and, in fact, the impetus for Miller doing a post-doc at Freud’s Psychoanalytic Institute.\u00a0 Later investigations of Freudian concepts led to Miller’s work on frustration and aggression, approach-avoidance conflict behavior, displacement and a collaboration with John Dollard producing two important books, “Social Learning and Imitation” and “Personality and Psychotherapy.”\u00a0 The latter was very important in training the first post-World-War-II generation of clinical psychologists in the treatment of neuroses.\u00a0 It emphasized the importance in therapy of the verbal use of response-produced cues to establish generalizations that should be perceived in one’s life but aren’t, or distinctions between difference, which, likewise, should be perceived but, again, aren’t.<\/p>\n Miller’s articles\u00a0related to Psychoanalysis<\/a><\/p>\n Paul Wachtel shares thoughts on integrative psychoanalysis<\/a><\/p>\n In the area of psychoanalysis, Miller examined Freudian concepts from a learning perspective, specifically stimulus-response theory. \u00a0Notions including frustration and aggression, approach-avoidance conflict behavior and displacement were meticulously investigated and finally explained via learning terminology. The current section provides a … Continue reading New (2011) Rolnick and Rickles article on FOLLOWING NEAL MILLER’S FOOTPRINTS: INTEGRATING BIOFEEDBACK WITH THE PSYCHODYNAMIC, RELATIONAL AND INTERSUBJECTIVE APPROACH.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"