Memory No. 1
The facade
It's snowing outside the clinic. Someone with a clipboard is checking people in.
C.O.R.E. Wellness Center
SCAD's first ever student-run haunted houseBook a session to relive your happiest memories.
Until your appointment
Sat. Nov 147–10 PMMontgomery Hall 120
C.O.R.E. Wellness Center is now accepting new patients for induced memory recall.
Remember how it felt to be home? Our recall therapy gently walks you back through the places you love most, rebuilt from your own memories, so you can rest, reflect and feel like yourself again. How do these places make you feel?
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“Absolutely life-changing. I got to relive my greatest moments on the silver screen. I was the Wizard of Oz.”
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“I come in every week now. I honestly can't remember the last time I felt this good.”
Results may vary. Some patients notice mild déjà vu or brief forgetfulness for a few days after a session. This is a normal part of the process and usually fades on its own. C.O.R.E. is not responsible for inaccuracies in recalled memories.
Memory No. 1
It's snowing outside the clinic. Someone with a clipboard is checking people in.
Memory No. 2
Close your eyes. Breathe. Listen to the clock. When you open them, the light has changed.
Memory No. 3
The candles are still burning. You're just in time. Where have you been?
Memory No. 4
Middle School Blowout Sale. Find the new you.
Memory No. 5
Confidential patient material. Not for public distribution.
Memory No. 6 and beyond
The rest of this session is confidential patient material. You'll have to see it for yourself.
im like mom and dad mixt togeter
Crayon on paper. Recovered from a confidential patient file. Nobody remembers drawing it.
Sketches pulled from patient memory captures: the Mother, the Persona, and something C.O.R.E. calls Repressed Emotion. You'll meet them in person.
Please arrive with an open mind. We'll take care of the rest.
CONFIRMEDShow up any time between 7 and 10. A C.O.R.E. therapist will check your group in out front, ask a few questions about your memories and have you sign a waiver. After a short orientation in the waiting room, you're on your own. Keep moving forward, and when you see the sign that says exit, take it.
Every wall, prop and scare in LIMINAL was designed, built and performed by SCAD students from all kinds of majors. It's put on by the Elevated Experiences Association together with PROD Club. EEA makes hands-on, story-driven live events for the whole student body, and this is the biggest one yet.
eea@clubs.scad.edu
LIMINAL is built by students on a student budget. If you'd like to help cover lumber, paint, props and costumes, you can chip in on our GoFundMe. Every bit helps, and coming to the show helps just as much.
About the Institute
For more than a century, the C.O.R.E. Institute of Psychology has studied one question: how do the places we remember shape who we are?
C.O.R.E. was founded on the combined research of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, shortly before the two famously went their separate ways. Their disagreement became our foundation: two maps of the same mind.
Generations of C.O.R.E. researchers have studied memory, emotion and the unconscious, building one of the largest archives of psychological observation in the world.
A research team led by Dr. Helena McDeen developed a way to read brain activity from across a room. No helmets, no wires. Just you and your own mind.
For the first time, induced memory recall is open to the public. Our patients come back to the places they love, and they keep coming back.
A session takes you from our waiting room to your own past in three gentle stages.
When you check in, a therapist asks a few simple questions about your memories. Your answers help us tune the session to you.
You close your eyes and listen. Familiar voices, music and everyday sounds are layered with soft gamma-frequency tones (30 Hz and above) that help memories surface on their own.
Sensors built into our walls measure the faint magnetic fields your brain produces. The system reads activity in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, the parts of the brain that hold memory, place and time, and rebuilds the space around you.
Our method draws on both of our founders. Freud showed us what the mind hides. Jung showed us what every mind shares.
Sigmund Freud
Much of what drives us happens outside awareness. Freud described three forces in constant negotiation:
Beneath all three sits the unconscious: memories and feelings we no longer notice, but that still shape how we act.
Carl Jung
Jung believed every person inherits a collective unconscious: patterns that appear in dreams and stories across every culture. He called these patterns archetypes.
The goal of Jung's work was the Self: a whole person, every part acknowledged.
Memories are anchored to rooms: a kitchen on a birthday, a hallway at school, a waiting room on an ordinary afternoon. Return to the place, and the feeling returns with it. As part of our public research, C.O.R.E. shares images composed during sessions. You may have seen them online, sometimes described as liminal spaces.
How do these places make you feel?
“Everyone has a place they wish they could go back to. We simply open the door.”
Dr. Helena McDeen · Director of Research, C.O.R.E. Institute of Psychology
Our mission is simple: a complete understanding of the human unconscious. We will keep observing, keep listening and keep learning for as long as it takes. C.O.R.E. never stops.