Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the subliminal psychodynamic activation method. Personality differences among individuals when engaging in clinical research are implicit in psychoanalytic theory. In addition to assessing a particular pathology, the assessment of subject characteristics (such as the presence of anaclitic or introjective proclivities) makes it possible to demonstrate subliminal psychodynamic activation effects. Responsiveness to the activation of particular psychodynamic motives are dependent not only on membership in groups with particular primary designations—for example, schizophrenics—but also on subgroup characteristics, such as whether the schizophrenics are relatively differentiated or undifferentiated; are men or women; or are relatively well defended or undefended against disturbing ideation. Various conditions that need to be fulfilled to maximize the chances of finding subliminal psychodynamic activation effects include (1) alerting oneself to conditions that could interfere with subliminal registration; (2) providing a high “dosage” of subliminal psychodynamic activation (both in terms of frequency and duration) whenever possible; and (3) employing verbal and pictorial stimuli together whenever feasible.
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