by Evan Dwan | Aug 26, 2021 | News |
Bruce Ecker writes that the emotional brain makes meaning in ways that are implicit and nonverbal. This ability to make models of the world is innate and present in 3-month-old infants who have expectations of their environment and respond accordingly. Psychotherapy...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 25, 2021 | News |
Ecker gives the example of social anxiety to illustrate the power of implicit emotional learnings. Such a person carries an expectation of being shamed and rejected by others (particularly, if, for example, they disagree with someone). This non-conscious expectation...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 24, 2021 | News |
Bruce Ecker argues that ‘emotional learnings’ generate the majority of unwanted behaviours, moods, emotions, and thoughts that cause distress and bring people to therapy. It was generally thought until recently that learnings that occurred during intense emotional...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 18, 2021 | News |
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...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 18, 2021 | News |
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...
