The predictive moment: reverie, connection and predictive processing

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© 2020 Taylor & Francis. This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in British Journal of Guidance and Councelling in July 2020 available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2020.1746744.Peer-Reviewed
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According to the theory of predictive processing, understanding in the present involves non-consciously representing the immediate future, based on probabilistic inference shaped by learning from the past. This paper suggests links between this neuroscientific theory and the psychoanalytic concept of reverie–an empathic, containing attentional state–and considers implications for the ways therapists intuit implicit material in their clients. Using findings from a study about therapists’ experiences of this state, we propose that reverie can offer practitioners from diverse theoretical s a means to enter the predictive moment deeply, making use of its subtle contents to connect with clients.Version
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McVey L, Nolan G and Lees J (2020) The predictive moment: reverie, connection and predictive processing. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling. 48(4): 511-523.Link to Version of Record
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https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2020.1746744