by Evan Dwan | Aug 10, 2021 | News |
Allan Schore writes that psychoanalysis has been called the scientific study of the unconscious mind. The construct of the unconscious is now being across numerous disciplines to describe ‘essential, implicit, spontaneous, rapid and involuntary processes’ that act...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 10, 2021 | News |
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...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 5, 2021 | News |
Leslie Greenberg writes that we inherit emotional responses like fear of the dark, but on top of this, we learn to associate particular emotions with experiences which become emotional memories. These memories are organisations of lived emotional experiences that are...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 5, 2021 | News |
According to Laura Fielding the purpose of an emotion is to: Motivate an action that seems useful for survival. Make you aware of a need that you have Communicate to your group or tribe what you need Courtney Armstrong describes the needs and action tendencies...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 5, 2021 | News |
In his book, ‘What is health?’ Peter Sterling recounts an Oliver Sacks story of ‘the lost Mariner’ – Jimmy, a former seaman, in his forties who has lost all his memories going back to 18. Jimmy could not form social bonds and was depressed and agitated....
by Evan Dwan | Aug 4, 2021 | News |
Allan Schore describes stress as a change or threat of change which demands adaptation by the organism. Elsewhere Schore describes stress as the occurrence of an asynchrony in a relational interaction in infancy (and indeed at later stages of life). A period of...
