Emotions and Psychopathology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The Nature of Emotions: Clinical Implications

   • Robert Plutchik

   Pages 1-20

3. Genetics, Emotions and Psychopathology

   • J. P. Scott

   Pages 21-36

4. Brain Emotional Circuits and Psychopathologies

   • Jaak Panksepp

   Pages 37-76

5. Pharmacotherapy of Personality Disorders

   • Michael R. Liebowitz

   Pages 77-94

6. The Role of Shame in Symptom Formation

   • Helen Block Lewis

   Pages 95-106

7. Generalised Emotion How it may be produced, and Sentic Cycle Therapy

   • Manfred Clynes

   Pages 107-170

8. Emotions and the Society of Mind

   • Marvin Minsky

   Pages 171-179

9. Emotions, Brain, Immunity, and Health: A Review

   • Theodore Melnechuk

   Pages 181-247

10. Toward a Cultural Epidemiology of Emotion

    • Paul Byers

    Pages 249-278

11. Round Table and Two Informal Presentations

    • Ted Melnechuk

    Pages 279-308

12. Back Matter

    Pages 309-326

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This book summarises the proceedings of a symposium on "Emotions and Psychopathology" which was held by the Department of Psychology of Bowling Green State University from September 26-27, 1986. It is coming to be realized that to understand the underlying structure and dynamics of many psychopathologies, it is essential to understand the nature of emotions. The aim of this symposium was to gather a group of investigators and thinkers who would have valuable and unique perspectives on the nature of emotions and on their relationship to psychic disorders. The main participants were Manfred Clynes, Helen Block Lewis, Michael Liebowitz, Marvin Minsky, Robert Plutchik, John Paul Scott and Jaak Panksepp. Ted Melnechuk chaired the half-day of round table discussion on the day following the symposium, and Gail Zivin and Larry Stettner presented informal position statements on ethologi­ during the round table. On the evening before the symposium, Elliot cal approaches Valenstein of The University of Michigan presented a pre-symposium colloquium entitled "Great and Desperate Cures" which summarized his most recent contribu­ tion to the Psychosurgery debate. We should like to refer you to his excellent book on the subject, with the same title, (Basic Books,1986), which can help forewarn us of possible future worries in the application of biological technologies. Paul Byers who did not attend the meeting was invited to write a chapter summarizing cultural and societal issues which were not formally covered at the meeting.

• emotion
• psychology
• psychopathology

• University of Melbourne, Australia

  Manfred Clynes

• Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA

  Jaak Panksepp

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