Has anyone scratched the surface of Cognitive Neuroscience, or Carl Jung's theory of dreams.

I don't have a background with psychology.  The closest I came to it was a college course many years ago "Understanding Human Personalities" most of which I forgot.  My one takeaway I can remember is a phrase called "defence mechanisms". Today it's called Masking.  As a newby to this site I'm curious to know if anyone has perused these -- or related topics with reference to ASD or has followed research results furthering its understanding. I've probably lifted the lid of a basket swarming with replies eager to escape!  

Cognitive science studies how the brain is organized, including thought processes and learning. I think CS studies are more applicable to our group rather than Neuroscience that studies the nervous system, including the brain, neurons, and cellular processes.

Dreams --- I am told --- interplay with our consciousness which may possibly have an effect on our ASD perceptions which is why I thought of Carl Jung (ref: Dreams in Jungian Analysis (jungian-confrerie.com) of which reams of information have been written.

I quietly tip toe out of this query seeking shelter from a deluge of responses.:-)

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  • I love Jung! He was Open to Being Wrong - or just exploring what he could with what he had. He would often simply state where the science was at, what discoveries were being made and what that might mean. Back then you would have to present additional difficulties to be Dx'd Autistic. Many of our Traits were simply accepted as a different personalty type. 

    His volumes on Dreams are really enjoyable. There's quite a bit of metaphysical exploration with lovely nuggets of history - we sense them so much more just by listening to someone in that Time.

    What's even MORE fascinating is to see how these psychoanalysts careers played out based on their early clinical experiences. For instance, Freud's early work was with far too many sexually abused individuals. The stories were severe. He started to see similarities and you can hear a conscience in his early work - but it's easy to then understand how this directed his future trajectory. 

    Jung - it seems, may have encountered a whole entourage of autistically wired individuals. Just whack open volume one and start reading. And he makes a big differentiation between the Extrovert and Introvert. There's a possibility this would be an early way of describing Allistic and Autistic. 

    Neuroscience is actually proving some early theories. I could go on here... but I'm a bit tire. Good topic! I'd encourage everyone to look back at historical work in psychology. It can make a good deal of sense with in our current world. 

  • There is still almost nothing certain or proven. Just loads of made up and glued together theories. Progress in direction of truth isn't alligned with interests of those who rule us. So probably it will be progressing slowly still, accidently giving truthful results, hidden among loads of other theories that are incorrect because were based on too many assumptions. Major mistake is looking on everything from outside, making conclusions based on symptoms not causes. But there is more than there was 50 years ago.

    My brain refuse to look on psychology as something disconnected from biology. For me everything is connected,

    I only hope each of us is building their own theory, involving senses, and how brain processes signals, and how we draw conclusions, store memories, and so on, and how and why and when genes giving each model differentiated from what is considered normal

  • To possibly add to "glued together theories" here is a link to further resources:

    The Top 44 Autism Open Source Projects (awesomeopensource.com)

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