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...
The elements of emotion schemes

The elements of emotion schemes

Leslie Greenberg writes that an emotion scheme sets in motion an emotionally motivated mode of processing which occurs outside of awareness and influences conscious processing. The activation of a fear scheme motivates the search for threat – the conscious processing...