Essay: Emotional development and transformation

Essay: Emotional development and transformation

While we all come equipped to life with the same emotional ‘hardware’, the ‘software’ of our emotional development follows a unique individual path starting with our early experiences in life. According to Sue Gerhardt, the foundations of a human life are laid down...
Essay: On emotion

Essay: On emotion

Vincent Van Gogh described emotions as ‘the great captains of our lives’. In his book ‘The strange order of things’, Antonio Damacio argues that feelings are centrally involved in the creation of culture. Advances in all fields, from Medicine to art, are based on...
Public health, culture and parenting

Public health, culture and parenting

Interventions to address adverse childhood experiences must use an ecological systems perspective along with a strengths-based approach rather than a deficit and problem-based approach, emphasising pathology. This must be supported by policy that addresses structural...