Posts Tagged ‘classification’

A Wheel of Emotions

Written by john on September 4th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ivan_Akira at Wikimedia Commons Here’s something that caught my eye – a highly original classification of the emotions. This image is the work of Robert Plutchik, a psychologist who saw emotions, apparently as Darwin did, as playing a role in the evolution of animal life. He posited that all animals, including [...]

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What’s in a (DSM Diagnostic) Name?

Written by john on July 17th, 2009
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Some Rights Reserved by Tom(hmm a rosa tint) at Flickr When I started getting a diagnosis of “depression” years ago, I found myself assuming that this was the name for a permanent condition rather than one dimension in the changing nature of an unfolding life. Later, the term became more formalized as “major depressive disorder [...]

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