Affect Imagery Consciousness v. 1
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-4404-1 (ISBN)
Silvan S. Tomkins was indeed one of history's most original psychologists, a tireless scientist who contributed much to that discipline. ""Affect Imagery Consciousness"" was his life's work and consumed him from the mid 1950s through the end of his life in 1991. With this book, he took on an enormous task; he sought to explore emotions, or affects, why we had them, why we paid attention to them, and how they motivated us to respond to situations in our daily lives.Tomkins believed that ""all life is 'affective life,' all behavior, thought, planning, wishing, doing...there is no moment when we are free from affect, no situation in which affect is unimportant."" He identified nine innate affects that humans possess, and from these, discovered a set of four highly specific behavioral requirements known as ""The Tomkins Blueprint for Individual Mental Health"", which states: as humans, we are motivated to savor and maximize positive affect. We enjoy what feels good and do what we can to find and maintain more of it; we are inherently biased to minimize negative affect; the system works best when we express all of our affects; and, anything that increases our power to accomplish these goals is good for mental health, anything that reduces this power is bad for mental health.These nine affects and this blueprint serve as a foundation for much of Tomkins' research and theories discussed in the volumes of ""Affect Imagery Consciousness"".
Silvan S. Tomkins, PhD, (1911-1991) was one of the most influential theorists of 20th-century psychology and is generally considered the founder of modern affective science. From 1947 until his retirement in 1975, Tomkins taught at Princeton University, The CUNY Graduate Center, and Rutgers University.
Prologue by, Donald L. Nathanson, MD
VOLUME I—THE POSITIVE AFFECTS
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Consciousness and Affect in Behaviorism
and Psychoanalysis
Drive–Affect Interactions: Motivational Information of Time and Place
of Response—When, Where, What, to What
Amplification, Attenuation and Affects
Freedom of the Will and the Structure of the Affect System
Evolution and Affect
Visibility and Invisibility of the Affect System
The Primary Site of the Affects: The Face
The Innate Determinants of Affect
Affect Dynamics
Interest–Excitement
Enjoyment–Joy and the Smiling Response: Developmental,
Physiological and Comparative Aspects
The Dynamics of Enjoyment–Joy: The Social Bond
Surprise–Startle: The Resetting Affect
VOLUME II—THE NEGATIVE AFFECTS
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Distress–Anguish and the Crying Response
Distress–Anguish Dynamics: The Adult Consequences of the
Socialization of Crying
Shame–Humiliation Versus Contempt–Disgust: The Nature
of the Response
Shame–Humiliation and the Taboo on Looking
The Sources of Shame–Humiliation, Contempt–Disgust and
Self-Contempt–Self-Disgust
The Impact of Humiliation: General Images and Strategies
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:
The Intrusion and Iceberg Models
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:
The Monopolistic and Snowball Models
The Structure of Monopolistic Humiliation Theory, Including the
Paranoid Posture and Paranoid Schizophrenia
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:
Some Specific Examples of the Paranoid Posture
References—Volumes I and II
Author Index I-1
Subject Index I-6
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.2.2008 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 1378 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8261-4404-7 / 0826144047 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8261-4404-1 / 9780826144041 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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