Emotional Health
Feelings, motivation, emotional competence, distress, and everyday functioning.
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Tree Rings of Feeling: Understanding the Layers of Your Emotions
An emotion can be ancient and at the same time unmistakably yours. You inherit the capacity to fear, seek, rage, attach, care, play, and desire. You also inherit sensitivities and…
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The Illusion of Separating Emotion from Reason: Damasio’s Challenge to Descartes
You are having coffee with Alex. After years of false starts, they have finally acquired something solid: a stable position at a logistics firm, decent pay, health insurance, even a…
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Obscure Sorrows and the Power of a Name
Some experiences enter awareness without an adequate name. You recognize their return, yet the usual words; sadness, unease, longing, frustration, fail to say exactly what is happening. The experience hovers…
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Emotional Competence and What Psychoanalysis Can Do for It
You can understand perfectly well that a critical remark is no great catastrophe and still spend the evening arguing with its author in your head. You can know that someone…
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Emotional Health Is the Missing Ingredient in Personal Development
Today’s mental health and personal development movements draw on an ever-changing blend of ancient philosophy, traditional psychology, and modern science. The recipes are passed down through generations, each era adding…