Anthony Townsend

Clinical #Psychologist specialising in #Neuropsychology & #Forensic #Psychology. Occasional social #empowerment professional & accidental #academic

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@BooyzenTanya @PsycheSociety @LisaGenova Thank you @BooyzenTanya , I'm so glad you found it meaningful.

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

"If we listen carefully, we can learn our needs and form new strategies to meet them." - Anthony Townsend (2020) #RiversOfRemembering @PsycheSociety

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@taneilthompson2 @PsycheSociety Thank you for joining Taneil! I'm glad it was meaningful! I really appreciate your contributions to the conversation

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@PsycheSociety Thank you very much for inviting me to give this lecture and for facilitating the discussion!

[PSYCHE SOCIETY @PsycheSociety]

@ARTownsend311 thank you so much for the insightful lecture on memory #RiversofRemembering...Memories are created by experiences and represented in emotions. Listening to our emotions tell us a story about ourselves... Anthony Townsend (2020)

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@jadawson911 The problems of the technological age :)

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@Zakiyah_92 Sorry XD

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@taneilthompson2 Typically civil damages are not claimed. Usually someone who is falsely convicted will make a case against the state for compensation. In cases like these, psychologists will be liable for charges made against them and can even have their licences suspended or taken away

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@taneilthompson2 It can be heart breaking to see how our memories trap us in trauma. But stories like hers also give us hope as we see how we can change memories to escape cycles of trauma

[taneilthompson @taneilthompson2]

#RiversofRemembering @ARTownsend311 these stories (like Tannah’s) always break my heart. Children are such fragile beings and truly cannot understand what is being done to them or how they are supposed to feel because of it.

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man” #RiversOfRemembering @PsycheSociety

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

“People think memory is like a recording device. It’s actually more like Wikipedia: Information gets stored there but you can go back and change it…and so can other people.” #RiversofRemembering @PsycheSociety

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@Zakiyah_92 The job would be very easy then, I suppose :)

[زكية ♡︎ @Zakiyah_92]

I wish every client could walk in and say “a repressed implicit memory linked to an emotional experience has just surfaced causing me these negative feelings, can you check it out?” 🤣
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[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@taneilthompson2 So true! Our memories shape everything throughout our lives. We need to listen to and understand them rather than bury them!

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@jadawson911 Absolutely! Memories are unconscious rules we create from past experiences and influence our present in ways we don't realise! We often have to be wary of how rules from old relationships influence new ones

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@jadawson911 Gosh! Those can be tough :) One strategy is to frame the research methodology/statistical methods you are studying within a topic that fascinates you. Almost asking yourself: "How would I use this to study [Interesting topic x]

[زكية ♡︎ @Zakiyah_92]

@ARTownsend311
On implicit and episodic memory, regarding the synaptic consolidation, is it possible for synaptic consolidation to be shifted somewhere else? Such as where trauma lives in other cells in our body as a result of an experience?

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

@Zakiyah_92 That's a fascinating question! There is still a lot of research to be done but some studies indicate this to be the case! We have neurons all over our bodies and memories are patterns of neuronal activation so it seems that, yes, "the body remembers"

[Anthony Townsend @ARTownsend311]

"#Memories may, therefore, be understood as predictions about what will help us meet our needs or how to subvert them.” #RiversOfRemembering @PsycheSociety