One of the biggest problems people tend to have with a Cannon-Bard-like theory of emotional reactivity is that it can be difficult to grasp (and make sense of) the degree of separation such a framework imposes upon the emotional and cognitive processes. Once we break from a linear, causal cognition/emotion model we face a multitude of [...]
I do not think it is possible to overestimate the significance of the fact that emotions are experienced before thought – particularly in regard to emotional imprinting and development. As infants, every first experience we have is an emotional one. While there is a cognitive response that accompanies each of those experiences emotional imprinting leads the [...]
The purpose of this site is to serve as sort of a “watering hole” for ideas I’ve been putting together about emotional development, specifically in terms of object relations, NLP, and attachment theory. I must first, however, make a few disclaimers right up front:
I am synthesizing, twisting, and boiling down a multitude of theoretical orientations [...]
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