From Memories to Mental Illness A Conceptual Journey
From Memories to Mental Illness explores a ground-breaking hypothesis based on the premise that memories are stored as electrically associated entities reflecting the natural organization of those experiences from which they rose. In the book's first half
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EMOTIONS, PERSONALITY, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Series Editors: Carroll E. Izard, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
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Jerome L. Singer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Current volumes in the series THE COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONALITY TRAITS Shulamith Kreitler and Hans Kreitler FINDING MEANING IN DREAMS: A Quantitative Approach G. William Domhoff FROM MEMORIES TO MENTAL ILLNESS: A Conceptual Journey William M. Hall IMAGERY AND VISUAL EXPRESSION IN THERAPY Vija Bergs Lusebrink THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS Carroll E. Izard QUANTIFYING CONSCIOUSNESS: An Empirical Approach Ronald J. Pekala THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT: History, Theory, and Research Carol Magai and Susan H. McFadden SAMPLING INNER EXPERIENCE IN DISTURBED AFFECT Russell T. Hurlburt SAMPLING NORMAL AND SCHIZOPHRENIC INNER EXPERIENCE Russell T. Hurlburt THE TRANSFORMED SELF: The Psychology of Religious Conversion Chana Ullman A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher.
From Memories to Mental Illness A Conceptual Journey William M. Hall Columbia Area Mental Health Center Columbia, Tennessee
Plenum Press. New York and London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hall, William M., M.D. From memories to mental illness M. Hall. p.
em.
-- (Emot i ons
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a conceptual journey
William
persona 1 i ty. and psycho therapy)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-8011-5 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0351-0
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) and index.
e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-0351-0
1. Memory disorders. 2. Memory. 3. Cognition disorders. 4. Recollection (Psychology) 5. Human information processing. I. Title. II. Series. BF376.H35 1996 616.89--dc20
96-25549
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-8011-5 © 1996 Plenum Press, New York Soft cover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1996
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This volume is dedicated to the memory of my parents, Ruby and Bill, and to my wife and children for their love and support in this endeavor-Sara, Andrew, Fagan, and my beautiful new Laura "Bee."
Preface
Perhaps the work presented here might best be described as a book of ideas. As the book's title implies, it represents a conceptual attempt to understand mental illness in relationship to such elemental brain processes as memory formation and storage. The journey begins with a consideration of some basic neural concepts. Through a pyramiding of related ideas, a theoretical framework that includes such sophisticated mental functions as thinking, consciousness, and the expression of emotion is devel
