The predictive moment: reverie,connection and predictive processing |
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Authors: | Lynn McVey Greg Nolan John Lees |
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Institution: | 1. School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK L.McVey@leeds.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2009-7682;3. School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2308-2702;4. School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT According to the theory of predictive processing, understanding in the present involves non-consciously representing the immediate future, based on probabilistic inference shaped by learning from the past. This paper suggests links between this neuroscientific theory and the psychoanalytic concept of reverie – an empathic, containing attentional state – and considers implications for the ways therapists intuit implicit material in their clients. Using findings from a study about therapists’ experiences of this state, we propose that reverie can offer practitioners from diverse theoretical backgrounds a means to enter the predictive moment deeply, making use of its subtle contents to connect with clients. |
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Keywords: | Reverie empathy intuition predictive processing mental imagery |
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