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I have several collections of articles in three separate sections. Click on a link to take you to the introductory page of that section. I have written many books and am slowly transcribing them into web articles and putting them here.
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Many of the articles depend on my ideas about emotion and the sequences of abreaction, which I present below.
Everyone experiences emotions, but few people can accurately identify them, except for some intense ones such as fear and anger. This inability to identify them results in a lack of self-awareness, and is a major source of self-deception and confusion in a person's idea of himself/herself.
We need to develop awareness of some primary emotions and the beliefs associated with them. By learning to identify these emotions the person takes the first step towards clearing his mind of confusion.
Then I analyse the process of abreaction. This process is a group of four main sequences of emotions that invariably link together excitement with sorrow, and positive beliefs with negative ones. Abreaction mixes together morality with immorality, purity with degradation. It makes a mess of traditional ideas on ethics and responsibility.
Understanding the nature of emotion and the process of abreaction enables a person to begin to construct more skilful theories of consciousness and of ethics, and to handle better the problems of everyday life. This understanding has profound implications for all ideas on the purpose of a human life.
Emotion
Emotion
1. The
basic model of emotion, plus unconscious
ideas
and compound emotions.
Emotion 2. A description of several everyday emotions, including anxiety. Characteristics of emotions.
Emotion 3. Identifying emotions, both conscious ones and subconscious ones. Examples of empiricism.
Abreaction
Abreaction
1.
Role
of anxiety plus definition of psycho-analysis. Determinism, and
switching between emotions.
Abreaction 2. Laws of the unconscious mind. Detailed analysis of the two commonest forms of abreaction.
Abreaction 3. Catharsis and suggestion. Immorality, sexual abuse of children, and examples of suggestion.
Abreaction 4. Resentment and bitterness. Purification, and social abreaction with examples.
Abreaction 5. Forgiveness and acceptance. Role of narcissism, backlash, and stages of resolution.
Abreaction 6. The Conversion Experience. Abreactions of Narcissism and Jealousy, plus two variations.
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Ian Heath
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Ian Heath
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