ABSTRACT

This chapter provides four psychometric questionnaires—the General Health Questionnaire, Facts About You, the Weinberger Adjustment Inventory, and the Response Evaluation Measure. The insights have led to practices and tools that aid in understanding the unconscious and the barriers to bringing it into consciousness. "Amygdala controls" and "frontal lobe controls" need to be translated into concepts that are applicable to our own personal experience. Self-regulation refers to tendency to keep emotions and behavior under control in even the most stressful circumstances. An individual experiences physical symptoms, such as paralysis or breathing difficulties, which have no physiological cause and have a very odd anatomical distribution that conflicts with knowledge of how nerves work. The degree to which people employ different defenses provides information about how easy or difficult it may be to access the motivational unconscious. Now, let's do a simple heart rate exercise, which will give further information about degree of emotional access and restraint.