The new
ideas
on this website
explore emotions :
what they are and how to identify them.
I describe their role in the formation of personal identity, confusion, bonding, alienation, and other states of mind.
A
person's ideals and
subconscious beliefs that lead him into
character
development, ethics,
and
idealism,
also lead him into
the
experience of
mental confusion.
The articles are divided into two groups.
I use a traditional model of consciousness, which I bring up to date in order to enable me to define what an emotion is. Then I show how to identify emotions once a sufficient level of awareness is developed. Once this identification is accomplished, the process of abreaction can then be detected and analysed. The pivotal role of anxiety within the subconscious mind can then be understood.
I apply the ideas on emotion and abreaction to an exploration of the emotional dynamics that underlie many fields of individual and social activities. This exploration makes use of dynamic psychology (the understanding of how the subconscious mind works), and opens new avenues for understanding old problems. Most articles in this section range between sexuality, bonding, attitudes, beliefs, identity, relationships and partnerships, idealism, and different forms of distress.
In addition, these ideas have major relevance to all forms of psycho-therapy, whether cognitive, Freudian psychoanalysis, Rogerian counselling, etc.
Introduction
Background
to the
articles on emotion and abreaction.
There
are 3
articles
on Emotion
and 5
articles on Abreaction.
Emotion
E
1. The
basic model + unconscious ideas
E
2. Characteristics
of emotions
E
3. Identifying
emotions
Abreaction
A
1.
Role
of anxiety + definition of psycho-analysis
A
2.
Laws
of the unconscious mind
A
3.
Catharsis
and suggestion
A
4.
Resentment
and bitterness
A
5.
Forgiveness
and acceptance
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The three articles on emotion and the five articles on abreaction are all long articles. On my website World of Emotion, they are split up into much smaller page sizes in order to make them easier to read and digest. See Links page for the address.
This site was put on the web in Summer 2002.
Copyright
© 2002 Ian Heath
All Rights Reserved
The copyright is mine, and the articles are free to use. They can be reproduced anywhere, so long as the source is acknowledged.
website address is www.discover-your-mind.co.uk
e-mail
address:
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It may be a few days before I can respond to correspondence.