emotions – A New Vision for Mental Health

The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Editorial 26th May 2023 0 Comments

This book has been written by Thomas Dixon. The publishers say: “Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. They are intimate…
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books, Culture & Society, emotions, history, subjectivity, Thomas Dixon

A Systematic Review of Associations Between Emotion Regulation Characteristics and Inflammation

Author: Editorial 13th April 2023 0 Comments

This review has been published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. The abstract says: “Elevated inflammation is a risk factor for many psychiatric (e.g., depression) and somatic conditions (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis). Inflammation is influenced by psychosocial processes such as emotion regulation. Characterization…
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emotional regulation, emotions, inflammation, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, New Approaches

Hermeneutic Labor in Medicine and Psychiatry

Author: Editorial 3rd February 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Awais Aftab has been published on his blog-site Psychiatry at the Margins. It begins: “Ellie Anderson has discussed the notion of ‘hermeneutic labor’”’ in the context of feminist scholarship in a wonderful paper, ‘ Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships Between Women and Men ,’ forthcoming in Hypatia….
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Awais Aftab, communication of emotions, Ellie Anderson, emotions, feminism, interpretation of emotions, Maia Bittner, phenomenological psychopathology, psychiatry, Psychiatry at the Margins

Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Author: Editorial 23rd November 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Edward S. Casey and presents a different view of emotions. As such it has relevance to our understanding of the emotional and psychological distress that is usually labelled ‘mental’ ill-health. The publishers say: “In Turning Emotion Inside Out,…
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books, Edward Casey, emotional knowing, emotions, existentialism, phenomenology, subjectivity

Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

Author: Editorial 17th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Antonio Damasio. The publishers say: “In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, ‘I think, therefore I am,’ science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently…
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Antonio Damasio, books, Descartes, emotional intelligence, emotions, neuroscience, rationality, reason

Head First: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of Mind and Body

Author: Editorial 4th July 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Alistair Santhouse. The publishers say: “What does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective – something of the mind? In this profound collection of…
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Alistair Santhouse, books, Clients & Patients, emotions, medical model, psychiatry, state of mind, subjectivity

Psychodynamic therapy helped me overcome trauma when CBT couldn’t

Author: Editorial 18th May 2022 0 Comments

This article by Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been published on the Psyche website. It begins: “The first time I saw my therapist, she was standing in front of a room full of people, talking about William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies…
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CBT, emotions, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, post-traumatic stress disorder, Psyche, psychodynamic psychotherapy, PTSD, Talking Therapies, trauma

Scientific Pollyannaism: From Inquisition to Positive Psychology

Author: Editorial 25th April 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Oksana Yakushko. The publishers say: “This book argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the ‘glad games’ to manage loss, abuse, and social prejudice) serves as a framework…
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books, emotional distress, emotions, happiness, Oksana Yakushko, Pollyannaism, positive psychology, scientism, wellbeing

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Author: Editorial 27th January 2022 0 Comments

This book by John Koenig has relevance to emotional knowing, emotional literacy and emotional intelligence. The publishers say: “Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in…
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books, e, emotional intelligence, emotional knowing, emotions, John Koenig

The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent

Author: Editorial 24th January 2022 0 Comments

“James Davies argues that we have created a culture that assumes happiness to be the normal, healthy human condition. Deviations from the blissful path — sadness, anxiety, disappointment — are thus treated as illnesses in search of a cure”.David Von…
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books, Culture & Society, emotions, happiness, James Davies, suffering, unhappiness, wellbeing