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People who are grieving a major loss, such as the death of a spouse or a child, use different coping mechanisms to carry on with their lives. Psychologists have been able to track different approaches, which can reflect different clinical outcomes. One approach that is not usually successful is avoidant grief, a state in which people suffering from grief show marked, effortful, repeated, and often unsuccessful attempts to stop themselves from thinking about their loss. While researchers have shown that avoidant grievers consciously monitor their external environment in order to avoid reminders of their loss, no one has yet been able to show whether these grievers also monitor their mental state unconsciously, trying to block any thoughts of loss from rising to their conscious state.
A new collaborative study between Columbia Engineering and Columbia University Irving Medical Center published online December 7 in SCAN: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience demonstrates that avoidant grievers do unconsciously monitor and block the contents of their mind-wandering, a discovery that could lead to more effective psychiatric treatment for bereaved people. The researchers, who studied 29 bereaved subjects, are the first to show how this unconscious thought suppression occurs. They tracked ongoing processes of mental control as loss-related thoughts came in and out of conscious awareness during a 10-minute period of mind-wandering.
Source: Editing consciousness: How bereaved people control their thoughts without knowing it
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 13 2018, @12:11PM
the thinking still takes place. and you know it, cause how else could you/we ever get stuck in front of a screen, ignoring alerts such as those telling us to, say, have a social life. in any case, this study, once weaponized, by furthering unconsciousness of pain, increases the non-thinking unconscious devaluation of live, our lives, our roots, our relations. mechanized, it brings us one step closer to the brave new world indeed. not that people who only ever touch glass-screens would know themselves as such, messy humanity substituted by a nice clean app.
another study for my social-shaping science collection! ty!
and, p.s. as all destructive/painful psychic potential can be discharged safely using appropriate rituals that wind up furthering the individual and hir society/group(s) we're seemingly making a value judgement by this research. furthering unconsciousness via displacement, you're actually engaging in something that is likely profoundly unethical. i rate this baseline-removal as far worse than messing with genes since it covers you/me/everyone as nothing more than an animal valued for your ability to 'be on task.' gdp ueber alles sucks!