Unconscious Phenomena Research Articles

Character Change in Less Frequent Therapies: Psychodynamic and Transference Implications.

An approach to a once-weekly, or bimonthly (every second week), ongoing psychodynamic psychotherapy is described. The detailed description of individual sessions is intended to show the process of the uncovering of unconscious phenomena using this approach, though the therapies described are not complete. Important changes that have already occurred are described. The approach is characterized by a direct method of discovery of early painful situations that underlie specific problematic experiences in the present. The therapeutic stance is designed to establish a collaborative relationship with the patient that becomes the substrate of the relationship and often leads to an identification with the therapist who becomes an ongoing presence in the patient's life.

Four Pillars of Social Life

Human psychology a study of the human brain and its behaviors it is conscious and unconscious phenomena that human sometime don’t even realize. There are five psychological concepts that includes: Biological, Humanistic, Cognitive, Behavioral, Psychodynamic. The paper mainly focuses on the Behavioral, Psychodynamics and behavioral areas. The human brains handle multiple task during his/her daily life weather he/she is home or in the work place. Work place psychological behaviors plays an important role how he builds perspective. This typically starts with the child when first starts going to school and till the later parts of life. This starts with identifying and solve problems – this change with increasing phases of life like for a child it is his homework, for a college going students it is his assignments and for a working professional it is his meeting and task to perform. The paper focuses mainly on the students and working professionals and how they drive their beliefs, values and principle. How a professional approach to different people based on his approach towards the work situation. This heavily depends on how well the work culture is and well the person is having a work life balance. Work-life balance plays a critical part as his ability to analyze situation and approach towards it influences his decision making. Moreover, a person’s social influence also makes his behavioral aspects which he/she carries for a very long period.

SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PREJUDICES: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY

ThescientificstudyofmindandbehavioriscalledPsychology.Itcovershumanandnon-human behavior, both conscious (aware) and unconscious (unaware) phenomena, as well asmental processes like thoughts, feelings, and motives. Social psychology (branch ofpsychology) is the scientific study of how others actual, imagined, or assumed presenceinfluences individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In context of social psychology-Prejudice is an assumption or opinion made about someone based solely on theirbelongingness to a specific group. Three psychological aspects of Prejudices– cognitive,affectiveoremotional, and behavioural.(SageKnowledge,2010)

Bodily unconscious as a basic phenomenon: Heidegger’s critique of Freud’s theory of conversion

ABSTRACT Is the expression “unconscious phenomena” a contradiction in terms? Do psychoanalytic discoveries compel phenomenology to adapt its methods in treating inapparent phenomena? What role does the body play in the manifestation of such phenomena? In this paper, I approach these questions (1) from within the clinical context of a post-traumatic somatization and (2) by spelling out the implications of Heidegger’s critique of Freudian psychoanalysis in the Zollikon Seminars. Drawing new critical attention to Freud’s earliest theories and methods, developed in the context of the investigation into hysteria, I argue that some of his fundamental insights may be read as following basic phenomenological intuitions. Following Heidegger’s reconfiguration of the field of phenomenology, the inapparent (“that which does not show itself as itself”) may be seen as taking center stage as the exhaustive model for phenomena as such. Placing particular emphasis on a set of Heidegger’s critical notions – “semblance” [Schein],” “understanding”, “motive” [Beweggrund] and “bodying-forth” [Leiben] — I argue that somatization could be conceptualized phenomenologically as a “bodying-forth” [Leiben] of an incapacity to understand or be understood, and that a similar mis-understanding may also befall practitioners who struggle to witness trauma, thus becoming the clinician’s own symptom.

Managerial marketing and behavioral marketing: when myths about marketing management and consumer behavior lead to a misconception of the discipline

AbstractMarketing has become accepted and proven in science and practice over the past decades. Many principles of marketing have become self-evident, but have led to gross generalizations and simplified thought patterns. This article examines myths and metaphors in marketing. A distinction is made between myths of managerial marketing and of behavioral marketing. In both sub-disciplines, we are often dealing with complex and invisible phenomena that occur in a variety of contexts. Attempts to explain these phenomena are therefore particularly prone to the emergence of myths or misconceptions. From a managerial perspective, topics such as the philosophy and leadership role of marketing, the generation of innovation success, the development of strategic competitive advantages, and brand management are reflected. Since the change from a sellers’ market to a buyers’ market, consumer behavior research and marketing have been closely intertwined. Therefore, findings from consumer behavior research form a central basis for successful decisions in marketing management. Based on this background, the second part of the article focuses on myths of consumer behavior research, here addressing unconscious phenomena in consumer behavior, mainly the discussion of subliminal priming (and its impact on manipulation) and unconscious perception as well as of unconscious motives, and approaches to implicite attitude measurement. Finally, implications are derived as to what extent the presented phenomena and the unveiling of myths have an impact on marketing management and on consumer behavior research and what roles these disciplines should take in the future. In the era of climate change and digital transformation, particular challenges are emerging. Thus, facts and not myths should determine the future path of the marketing discipline.

The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive.

Working with dreams in groups allows an understanding of phenomena that characterise the unconscious as a total unity. The dreamer becomes the vehicle of emotions, fantasies, and anxieties that dominate the group at a given moment, allowing them to be understood and processed. The analysis of shared dreams can further our understanding of emotional concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its psychological repercussions. Six sessions of social dreaming were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic period. Our aim was not to investigate differences between and within groups: the analysis was performed by identifying the core themes encompassing the contents of dreaming sessions, as products constructed by and within groups that are informative of society's collective unconscious more broadly. The narratives were transcribed and thematic analysis was performed with the support of Atlas.ti software. Three main themes were identified: i) nightmares' descriptions and the links with the COVID-19 pandemic; ii) loss of control within the unexpected outbreak: the pandemic as a learned helplessness context and environmental mastery as an emergent psychological issue; and iii) recalls of the child-past as continuity-makers within the continuity-breaking pandemic present. Through the qualitative analysis of dream narratives, we identified the links between individuals and the shared field. It is arguable that, by sharing dreams, the members of the group develop meanings useful to process the painful experience that unites them, as the three main themes show.

Unconscious Other's Impression Changer: A Method to Manipulate Cognitive Biases That Subtly Change Others' Impressions Positively/Negatively by Making AI Bias in Emotion Estimation AI.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for human emotion estimation, such as facial emotion estimation, has been actively studied. On the other hand, there has been little research on unconscious phenomena in cognition and psychology (i.e., cognitive biases) caused by viewing AI emotion estimation information. Therefore, this study verifies RQ "Do people have a cognitive bias in which impressions of others (i.e., how to see and feel about others) are changed by viewing biased AI's emotion estimation information? If it exists, can impression manipulation methods that intentionally use this cognitive bias be realized?" The proposed method for verification makes the emotion estimation system biased so as to estimate emotion more positively/negatively than AI without bias. A prototype system was implemented. Evaluation using video showed that the presentation of biased emotion estimation information causes a phenomenon that quickly and unconsciously changes the way people see and feel others' impressions, which supported the RQ. Specifically, viewing information that estimated others' emotions more positively/negatively caused the phenomenon in which the user's self-judgment was overridden and others' impressions of emotions, words, and actions were perceived more positively/negatively. The existence of this phenomenon and method indicates that biased emotion estimation AI has the potential to both cause adverse effects on people and support people for good purposes through the manipulation of their impressions. This study provides helpful insights for the design and use of emotion estimation AI considering cognitive biases.

Integrated world modeling theory expanded: Implications for the future of consciousness.

Integrated world modeling theory (IWMT) is a synthetic theory of consciousness that uses the free energy principle and active inference (FEP-AI) framework to combine insights from integrated information theory (IIT) and global neuronal workspace theory (GNWT). Here, I first review philosophical principles and neural systems contributing to IWMT's integrative perspective. I then go on to describe predictive processing models of brains and their connections to machine learning architectures, with particular emphasis on autoencoders (perceptual and active inference), turbo-codes (establishment of shared latent spaces for multi-modal integration and inferential synergy), and graph neural networks (spatial and somatic modeling and control). Future directions for IIT and GNWT are considered by exploring ways in which modules and workspaces may be evaluated as both complexes of integrated information and arenas for iterated Bayesian model selection. Based on these considerations, I suggest novel ways in which integrated information might be estimated using concepts from probabilistic graphical models, flow networks, and game theory. Mechanistic and computational principles are also considered with respect to the ongoing debate between IIT and GNWT regarding the physical substrates of different kinds of conscious and unconscious phenomena. I further explore how these ideas might relate to the "Bayesian blur problem," or how it is that a seemingly discrete experience can be generated from probabilistic modeling, with some consideration of analogies from quantum mechanics as potentially revealing different varieties of inferential dynamics. I go on to describe potential means of addressing critiques of causal structure theories based on network unfolding, and the seeming absurdity of conscious expander graphs (without cybernetic symbol grounding). Finally, I discuss future directions for work centered on attentional selection and the evolutionary origins of consciousness as facilitated "unlimited associative learning." While not quite solving the Hard problem, this article expands on IWMT as a unifying model of consciousness and the potential future evolution of minds.

PSYCHOANALYTIC ANALYSIS OF TWO FEMINIST ARTISTS AUTOBIOGRAPHIC ART WORKS

The psychoanalytic analysis method aims to identify the artist's life experiences, traumas, traces of his self and traces of his psychic structure in the work revealed in the visual arts. The facts intended to be revealed in question reveal the autobiography of the artist in his work. While examining the psychic structure of the artist, it was determined that the artist produced autobiographical works with a Feminist approach, sometimes with life experiences and early effects on the artist's psyche. While feminist artists aimed to defend gender equality and women's rights and freedoms, they realized this through their own life experiences, and in this context, the facts related to the feminist approach were transferred to art in their own psychic structures and unconsciously. In this context, the research aims to examine the works of two prominent female artists in Feminist Art, Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, to examine their psychic structures with the psychoanalytic analysis method, to reveal the autobiographical facts and to determine the feminist phenomena in the artist's Psyche. In the study, it was determined that the two female artists included in the sample revealed the Feminist phenomena stemming from their experiences, as well as the situations that exist in the existential development of the individual in the pasicaanalytic context, and the Feminist phenomena from the unconscious phenomena.

Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership

Public administration and political science: From monogamous marriage to professional partnership

The Unconscious Mind Worry: A Mechanistic-Explanatory Strategy

AbstractRecent findings in different areas of psychology and cognitive science have brought the unconscious mind back to center stage. However, the unconscious mind worry remains: What renders unconscious phenomena mental? I suggest a new strategy for answering this question, which rests on the idea that categorizing unconscious phenomena as “mental” should be scientifically useful relative to the explanatory research goals. I argue that this is the case if by categorizing an unconscious phenomenon as “mental” one picks out explanatorily relevant similarities to a corresponding paradigmatically mental conscious phenomenon. Explanatory relevance is spelled out in terms of mechanistic norms.

A pesquisa Psicanalítica na Universidade: Estratégias Metodológicas de Investigação

Abstract The principle of psychoanalytic investigation is to provide conditions for discoveries, but not necessarily to discover what was sought. On the other hand, at the university level, a frequent requirement is the delineation of general objectives, specific objectives, hypotheses, and expected results. How is it possible, then, in the face of clinical and university claims, to study unconscious phenomena so as not to violate the nature of the object of study? This article proposes to conduct a theoretical discussion on the epistemology of psychoanalytic research and its place within university research. Psychoanalytic research is conceptualized as a matrix of strategies guided by clinical practice and research. In this context, the focus of this article is directed at the case study.

Si je vous dis « rouge », à quoi pensez-vous ?! Discussion autour d’une dynamique associative inconsciente

PurposesThis article aims to deepen a theoretical model of the psychic apparatus introduced in a previous work, in particular one of its main characteristics: the presence, at the center of its functioning, of an unconscious dynamic of perceptive association partly inherited from the primary process of the Freudian theory. MethodThe article first surveys Freud's writings about three psychic phenomena: dreams, slips of the tongue, and jokes. Analyzing these works suggests a theoretical difficulty concerning two processes (primary and secondary) considered to be opposites by Freud, and leads to an alternative applied by our model. The article then moves on to the famous experiments conducted by Alfred Binet with his hysterical patients at the end of the 19th century, in which the so-called phenomenon of “double consciousness” was put on display. ResultsIt appears that the unconscious dynamic of perceptive association is always a driver of psychic life, in both unconscious phenomena as well as in regular thinking. It typically operates when we facetiously ask the reader: “If I say ‘red’, what comes to mind?” This dynamic seems to bring to the natural mechanism of thinking some proprieties of condensation and displacement already identified by Freud, in a more intense form, in the making of dreams and attributed to his primary process. More precisely, thinking appears to be the product of this dynamic, given that it is supervised by the activity of the field of consciousness, simultaneously able to activate and channel it. DiscussionThe irruption of dreams possibly results from a kind of switching in the collaboration between consciousness and the unconscious system during sleep: the lowering of conscious activity then opens the way for the associative dynamic of the unconscious whereas, on the contrary, the former tightens its grips in the alert thinking. More generally, we can consider that thinking, in all its forms, always depends on the control exercised by the field of consciousness over the associative dynamic of the unconscious. A great freedom given to the latter would necessarily be a condition for artistic creation, for example. ConclusionOur reflections and model clearly borrow from Freudian theory, while also clearly departing from it in several respects. Starting from the dynamic of the unconscious system, this article highlights the importance of conscious activity when Freud instead tended to minimize it. From this perspective, our model would appear to occupy a middle ground between Freud's and Janet's.

5.O. Workshop: Migrants and differential care in the perinatal period

Abstract Nationwide, more than 22% of births in France are to women who were born elsewhere. It is now well documented that overall, these women, like migrants throughout Europe, have higher perinatal and maternal risk levels than non-migrants. The mechanisms of these social inequalities in health have not yet been sufficiently and adequately explored. Access to and quality of care are likely to be intermediate factors in their explanation. This hypothesis is especially probable in view of recent work showing higher rates of inadequate prenatal and suboptimal perinatal care in some groups of migrant women compared to women born in France. This workshop aims to present and discuss a mixed-methods research program founded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The program was designed to address and assess the role played by health professional's implicit bias (IB) in the provision of differential care that could explain disparities in maternal and perinatal health between certain groups of migrants and women born in France. The existence of these IB has been demonstrated in healthcare professionals in several specialties, mainly in North America, but never in the perinatal field nor in European settings. While this program has focused on care as diverse as cesarean section, epidural analgesia during labor, prevention and management of eclampsia, and Down syndrome screening, we propose to report on our approach through the issue of Down syndrome screening. IB has been shown to be less likely to induce differential care in highly protocolized emergency care settings. Conversely, non-emergency situations such as prenatal care, where there is nevertheless time pressure on health care professionnals, are more likely to be contexts for the existence of non-medically based differential care. Access to prenatal screening for Down's syndrome, where patient information plays a fundamental role, seemed to us to be a particularly interesting model for the study of differential care and the role played by IB. While the role of conscious and unconscious discrimination phenomena in the mechanisms of social health inequalities appears as increasingly probable, this workshop, based on data from a multidisciplinary research program, will shed additional light on these issues from the very concrete question of down syndrome screening. Researchers involved in this multidisciplinary project will present the results successively from epidemiological, qualitative sociological, and quantitative psycho-sociological approaches addressing differential care practices in Down syndrome screening. This mixed-methods approach will provide complementary insights into the research question. Our methods and results will then be discussed in an audience session led by moderators external to the project but experts in social health inequalities. Key messages Differential care between pregnant migrant women and native women has been evidenced in Down syndrome screening in France. Disparities in the use of Down syndrome screening according to women place of birth are almost partly related to differences in the opportunity of an informed choice.

Psychoanalysis of the Doctrine of Acute Pneumonia

It is difficult to predict how the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, would react to an attempt to link his theory and the method of treating mental disorders based on it [1] with such a purely physical disease as acute pneumonia (AP). It is unlikely that such an innovation could cause full approval and support. However, in this context, we are not talking about psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method for AP. In this case, only the diagnostic features of this technique are of interest. The essence of psychoanalysis, which is based on the search for the causes of the so-called echoes of the past, as well as the connection between conscious and unconscious phenomena, can be useful in order to understand the causes of errors and paradoxes that exist in solving the problem of AP. In other words, we are not talking about the nuances of the disease itself, but about the peculiarities of its nature, since the interpretation of the essence of AP determines the principles of treatment and the final results.

Neuropsychology of the unconscious: current state of the problem

Introduction. The sphere of the unconscious includes many phenomena that have a strong influence on human behaviour and cognitive activity. Although the importance of taking into account the unconscious is evident to most psychotherapists, its role is visibly underestimated in neuropsychology. In this regard, the present state of research on brain organization of unconscious processes is of interest. Objective. The review aims to describe the current state of research on brain mechanisms of the unconscious. Procedure. The present paper describes a variety of unconscious phenomena. It also outlines widespread points of view on the correlation between consciousness and unconscious and discusses the freewill problem. The question posed is whether the research programme of neuropsychology allows studying the unconscious phenomena. The study analyses the subject matter of neuropsychology and discusses the historical change of A.R. Luria’s views on psychology of the unconscious. The paper describes the studies of brain mechanisms underlying a variety of unconscious manifestations that have been conducted within different psychological schools. The aim is to consider the essential principles of neuropsychological research of the unconscious. Conclusion. In foreign neuroscience there are numerous studies in the field of brain mechanisms of unconscious processes. Up to now, the leading positions in the sphere are taken by neuropsychoanalysis and cognitive neuroscience. In Russian neuropsychology the unconscious is barely investigated because it does not comply with the traditional research object, that is, the higher mental functions. However, in the current conditions, the research programme of neuropsychology allows studying the unconscious. The paper highlights the advantages of investigating the unconscious phenomena from the neuropsychological standpoint considering its evolutionary purpose.

Amnesias of a Freudian Kind, Part II

Amnesias of a Freudian Kind, Part II Diane O'Donoghue (bio) Part II This essay is the second of a two-part series that examines Freud's constructions of amnesia as they participated in "forgetting," both within the mechanisms of his psychoanalytic project and, far less investigated, as a way to fix the borders of his idea of an unconscious. As argued in Part One (O'Donoghue, 2021), the operations of forgetting that Freud would identify with repression were in fact constituted by a preceding removal from memory, one that was discursive rather than psychical. Significant events were banished from view—or, better, hidden in plain sight—by being enunciated as valueless, or as Freud said of his early years in Vienna, "nothing was worth remembering" (Freud, 1899, p. 312). What remained were selected fragments of one's past that were interpretable as markers of repression, and as such tied to specific a priori drives whose sexual or aggressive impulses necessitated their inaccessibility to consciousness. This allowed for a schema to be placed on the vagaries of an individual life and desires, and those that were irreducible to such characterizations, originating with Freud's own early life, were rendered forgettable. Freud's specific uses of the term "amnesie" have received surprisingly little attention, a fact that can be attributable to its lack of psychoanalytic gravitas—in contrast to repression—and as such it functioned as a descriptor that could be applied more fluidly. Several of its streams, including Freud's earliest published discussion of amnesia, as well as its later "infantile" version, were charted in the first portion of this study. We turn now to its presence within Studies on Hysteria (1895), where we find a striking example of expungement as Freud attempted to treat a patient by making her "reminiscences" permanently [End Page 601] inaccessible. After discussing this case, we will consider several genealogies that have been offered for Freud's attempt at such an extreme memory effacement. The essay concludes with a discussion of suppression, posited here as a form of amnesic erasure that, enacted by Freud as a conscious way to delimit the content of unconscious phenomena, was never, not surprisingly, privileged within the construction of psychical life that resulted from it. Hysteria, Amnesia, and Discontent In his treatment of "Emmy von N," likely occurring in brief periods during 1888 and 1889, Freud, in his "first attempt" (Breuer and Freud, 1895, p. 48) at hypnotic intervention—and his first recorded clinical case—was able to remove "melancholy things" from her memory by "not only wiping out her memories of them in their plastic form [but] by removing her whole recollection of them" (p. 61). The narrative of "Emmy," his pseudonym for Fanny von Sulzer-Wirth Moser (1848–1924) was documented in Studies on Hysteria (1895) as a series of journal entries detailing the episodes of sustained contact that Freud had with her. He added a subsequent self-reflection on the case in 1924, in a footnote to a later edition (1925) of Studies that Strachey added at the conclusion of the case, where Freud observed that "no analyst can read this case to-day without a smile of pity" (p. 105, n. 1). Such a comment intimates that Freud, by this point in the codification of his psychoanalytic project, was comfortable enough to proffer such a retrospective revelation of naïveté. Over a decade after this admission he penned a letter, in July of 1935, to Fanny Moser's daughter and namesake that appears to be his last word on the case.1 There he defended his inability to correctly identify the elder Moser's condition (rather baldly stated to her daughter as "unconscious hatred for her two children") because at that point he "didn't know anything," having not yet understood the workings of the "hidden psyche" (Tögel, 1999, p. 1165). In an earlier correspondence with this younger Fanny Moser, in 1918, he claimed that he had stopped his use of hypnosis (it was "meaningless and useless") because of this case, with [End Page 602] this abandonment resulting in "the incentive to create psychoanalytic therapy more in accordance with reason" (Andersson, 1979, p. 14). These...

Kajian Sosial Kepesantrenan dalam Bingkai Varian Teori Praktis: Sebuah Refleksi

Sebagai lembaga Pendidikan Islam yang berakar pada sejarah dan budaya nusantara, pesantren telah menjadi objek diskursus akademik dalam bingkai ilmu-ilmu sosial. Di berbagai seting sosial yang beragam, pesantren memiliki berbagai dimensi khasnya yang menjadikan ciri pembeda antara satu pesantren dan yang lainnya. Beberapa diantara objek kajian sosial kepesantrenan meliputi hubungan sosial antara pesantren dan lingkungan masyarakat di luar pesantren, pedagogi dalam proses pendidikannya, dan perubahan sosial akibat dari keberadaan pesantren dan elemen-elemennya itu sendiri. Artikel ini membahas pembingkaian fenomena sosial kepesantrenan dalam kerangka teori praktis Bourdieu dan Giddens yang notabene memiliki pendekatan strukturasi yang berbeda. Bourdieu menerapkan strukturasi dalam pendekatan kuasa (power) dan Giddens dalam pendekatan pengetahuan (knowledgeability). Penggunaan kedua paradigma strukturasi ini dapat memberikan penjelasan proses preservasi dan perubahan dalam institusi pesantren dalam kendali agen. Namun demikian, hanya fenomena sadar (conscious phenomena) yang dapat dibingkai. Fenomena tak sadar (unconscious phenomena) rupanya tidak dapat dibingkai dalam strukturasi dan memerlukan bantuan dari disiplin pengetahun yang lain, seperti antropologi psikologis, untuk dapat menjelaskan fenomena secara ilmiah.

Reflections on Eriksen's seminal essay on discrimination, performance and learning without awareness.

Early in his career C.W. Eriksen published in Psychological Review what turned out to be a highly impactful critique on methods and findings on the topic of unconscious influences on discrimination and awareness. His incisive commentary on extant methodology employed at that time - especially the heavy dependence on subjective reports - clearly was heard by others moving forward, as evidenced by the subsequent, lively discussions within the literature concerning the very definition of the notion of unconscious processing. Of equal importance, Eriksen's paper provided an impetus for the development of more refined techniques for manipulating perceptual awareness and for measuring the consequences of those manipulations. My purpose in this essay is to ensure that Eriksen's seminal contributions concerning unconscious phenomena remain within the awareness of the many current investigators working on this popular topic.

Development and Testing of Experimental Psychological Techniques for the Study of Unconscious Visual-Perceptual Processes

The work is devoted to the actual problem of research of visual-perceptual processes that take place on an unconscious level. There is a shortage of reliable and informative psychodiagnostic tools, specially designed to study unconscious perceptual and mnestic phenomena in mentally healthy people and in the persons with affective disorders. It is emphasized that when creating such techniques, it is necessary to take into account the influence of emotional disorders on the course of basic mental processes. Three new experimental psychological techniques have been developed, aimed at research and objectification of transient conscious and unconscious perceptual-informational processes. The technique of forming a subsensory stimulus is a step-by-step determination of the exact threshold time of exposure, in which one verbal stimulus out of three demonstrated ones remains unidentified at the conscious level, i.e. subsensory. The technique of psychophysiological confirmation of the significance of a subsensory stimulus is an automated registration-analytical procedure, which involves the use of a serial digital polygraph "Rheocom-stress" and allows you to identify the words most significant to the subject, regardless of the level of subjective awareness of that significance. The technique of detecting unconscious perceptual-mnestic fixation of subsensory stimuli is a method of studying the effect of involuntary memorization, retention and reproduction of subsensory stimuli. Approbation of the developed experimental psychological techniques was performed on the sample of 38 people, including 23 patients with affective disorders and 15 mentally healthy people. It is shown that the thresholds of visual perception in patients with affective disorders are almost three times higher than in the control group. The effect of perceptual-mnestic fixation was confirmed by one or more methods in 100% of the cases. The results of the approbation conclusively testify to the high sensitivity and informativeness of the approach used.