by Evan Dwan | Aug 10, 2021 | News |
Depth psychology makes the claim that the mind is made up not just of a conscious part but also and unconscious part, that influences how we perceive and behave in the world and is one of the most powerful determinants of our behaviour. According to Helene Smit the...
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...
