We have previously described neurotic psychopathology and psychoanalytic working-through by an associative memory mechanism, based on a neural network. Memory was initially modelled by a Boltzmann machine (BM). We simulated known microscopic mechanisms that control synaptic properties and showed that the network self-organizes to a hierarchical, clustered structure. Some properties of the complex networks which result from this self-organization indicate that a generalization of the BM may be

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... cessary to model memory. We have thus generalized the memory model, using Generalized Simulated Annealing, derived from the nonextensive formalism, and show some properties of the resulting memory access mechanism.