Affect Imagery Consciousness v. 2

Silvan S. Tomkins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

1226 Seiten

2008
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-4406-5 (ISBN)

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Explores 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.

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 III—THE NEGATIVE AFFECTS: ANGER AND FEAR

Dedication

Biography

Preface

Part I: Modifications, Clarifications, and Developments
in Affect Theory

24. Affect As Analogic Amplification: Modifications and Clarifications
in Theory

25. Affect and Cognition: “Reasons” As Coincidental Causes of
Affect Evocation

26. Affect and Cognition: Cognition As Central and Causal in
Psychological Magnification

Part II: Anger and Fear

27. Anger and Its Innate Activation

28. The Magnification of Anger

29. The Differential Magnification of Anger

30. The Socialization of Anger

31. Ideology and Anger

32. Anger-Management and Anger-Control Scripts

33. Anger in Affluence and Damage-Repair Scripts

34. Anger in Depressive Scripts

35. Anger in Disgust-Decontamination Scripts

36. Antitoxic Anger-Avoidance Scripts

37. Antitoxic, Anger-Driven Expressive and Counteractive Scripts

38. Antitoxic, Anger-Driven Power and Recasting Scripts

39. Antitoxic, Anger-Driven Destructive Scripts

40. Fear and Its Socialization

41. Fear Magnification and Fear-Based Scripts

Epilogue

VOLUME IV—COGNITION: DUPLICATION AND
TRANSFORMATION OF INFORMATION

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgments

42. Introduction to the Second Half of Human Being Theory

Part I: Cognition

43. Cognition: What Is It and Where Is It ?

44. Varieties of Media Mechanisms: A Bottom-Up Perspective

45. Varieties of Information Gain and Script Formation: A Top-Down
Perspective

Part II: Memory

46. Memory: Defining Characteristics

47. The Storage and Retrieval of Imagery: The Nature of These
Processes

48. The Possibility and Probability of Retrieving Stored
Information

49. Implications for Human Development: Continuity and
Discontinuity

50. Factors Governing the Activation of Early Memories

Part III: Perception

51. Perception: Defining Characteristics—Central Matching
of Imagery

52. The Lower Senses

53. The Higher Senses

Part IV: Other Centrally Controlled Duplicating
Mechanisms

54. The Central Assembly: The Limited Channel of Consciousness

55. The Feedback Mechanism: Consciousness, The Image, and
the Motoric

Epilogue: Rate Change and Dimensionality as Fundamental
Axiom

References—Volumes III and IV

Author Index I-1

Subject Index I-5

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.2.2008
Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	1338 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	0-8261-4406-3 / 0826144063
ISBN-13	978-0-8261-4406-5 / 9780826144065
Zustand	Neuware