EFT Theory Flashcards
What is the purpose of EFT?
Help clients form new emotion schematic memories that lead to new responses and to the narrative consolidation of these changes
What is self-organization?
the experiential state of the self at any one moment
What is Schematically based self-organization?
the feeling of who one is
What is Narrative identity? How does it emerge?
A level of organization of self that is higher than the schematically based self-organization (i.e., the feeling of who one is)
Emerges out of the dialectic of experiencing and explaining
Through the integration of experience and various self representations into a coherent story or narrative
How is the narrative self created?
Through a dialectical process
- basic elements of biological and physiological phenomena - - these are filtered through emotion schemes, which are synthesized
- this leads an experience of self-organization (one of many possibilities. E.g., vulnerable, open, withdrawn, good humored)
- self-organization is influenced by cognitive processing (e.g., attention, executive processes)
- This self organization results in a bodily self sense of who one is (bodily felt referent)
- consicous experience results when this implicit feeling is attended to and symbolized explicity
- When self-organization is both symbolized and reflected on, meaning is created
- this symbolization involved learning from culture
- meaning, narrative, and identity are constructed by reflecting on experience, making sense of it, and explaining it to ones self
Within the EFT theory, what are the mechanisms through which dysfunction can arise? (4)
- Meaning creation: through the particular meanings and narrative created
- Disclaimed or unsymbolized experience: through incongruence between what is reflectively symbolzied and the range of experienced possibilities
- Learning: through the type of experience that is generated by the schematic synthesis formed on the basis of prior experience
- Conflict and splits: from problematic shifts between plurality of self-organizations or lack of fit or integration between them