Affect and Emotion
UK £3.99,Canada $6.95,USA $7.95,
UK Publication April 2001
ISBN 9781840462432
Paperback
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Our emotions and feelings are central to who we are and the quality of our lives. Some people manage by denying or getting rid of their feelings, some cannot control their emotions, and others seem unable to feel very much at all. This book shows how psychoanalysis can illuminate the emotional and affective aspects of our beings.
Using everyday examples, Graham Music describes the ways in which psychoanalysis has traditionally thought about emotions and affects, and how early experience can influence people's emotional capacities. Central emotional issues that may arise in therapy and in people's lives, such as loss and grief, are explored, as is the idea that we have feelings that are unconscious, and that emotions and thought processes are closely linked. Psychoanalytic thinking aims to enable people to tolerate a broader range of emotional experience, both positive and negative, and consequently enhance people's capacities for accepting themselves and relating to others.
Graham Music works as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in the NHS in East London. He also manages an adolescent counselling service, works as an adult psychotherapist in private practice, and is a visiting teacher at the Tavistock Clinic in London.
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