Posts Tagged ‘emotions’

Relationships in Conflict: Depression’s Role

Written by John on July 24th, 2010
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Some Rights Reserved by ComputerHotline at Flickr Depression is a natural enemy of close relationships. It helps build tension and conflict as a once-loving partner either withdraws into emotional isolation or turns angry and blaming. I suppose that’s inevitable since the loving support of a long-term relationship doesn’t fit the depressed view of an undeserving [...]

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Tags: confirmation bias, conflict, Connecting, emotional reasoning, emotions, partner, psychology, responsibility
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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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Tags: classification, emotions, evolution, psychology, Robert Plutchik
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Creativity and Depression – 3

Written by John on February 10th, 2008
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Some Rights Reserved by DerrickT at Flickr Patrick has written a comment packed with ideas about his responses to depression. I’m especially interested in three points he makes about creativity and imagination. First, he notes that his years of experience of therapy led him to see it as a “misguided enterprise, that of creating and [...]

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Tags: connection, creativity, culture, depression, disconnection, emotions, imagination, Jane Chin, life, PeterKramer, Philip Dawdy, Siroj Sorajjakool, Tim Bugansky
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