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...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 3, 2021 | News |
Steve Sumoi’s laboratory has shown that in Rhesus monkeys that were maternally deprived grow up to be socially anxious in nature and develop reactive temperaments – a tendency to become aggressive, impulsive, fearful and over-aroused. They also tend to go to the...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 3, 2021 | News |
Iain McGilChrist argues that feelings are not a reaction to cognitions; it is the other way around: Affect comes first, thinking arrives later. When making choices we make an intuitive assessment and then later use cognition to justify these choices. This is called...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 3, 2021 | News |
What is an affect? How does it differ from feeling and emotion? Donald Nathanson argues that when an affect has been triggered it means that a stimulus has activated a mechanism that releases a known pattern of biological events. Each affect unfolds according to a...
