A Dynamic View of Emotion with an Application to the Classification of Emotional Disorders

摘要: The study of emotion has been plagued by a multitude different types theories and approaches. Except on few fundamental facts, there is virtually no agreement. This also explains why progress in the field over last years slow. So it comes as surprise that clinical psychology not extensively studied emanating from academic psychology. We propose taking dynamic perspective emotions, psychoanalysis proposes it, we can arrive at systematic way exploiting knowledge about emotions to achieve better understanding complex rapid changes therapeutic processes. In this dogmatic position be avoided more fruitful approach practice may ensue. show analyst into account while modeling patient’s behavior, are capable coping with some antirationalist criticism which might directed our modeling. first model enables analysts patients gain insights their own emotion-related behaviors. then for classifying emotional disorders based assumption intrinsically dynamic. classification scheme implies will have make assumptions “normality” explicit, an issue think unavoidable whenever talking pathology, but frequently repressed.