Posts Tagged ‘emotions’

A Wheel of Emotions

Written by john on September 4th, 2009
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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 humans, [...]

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Creativity and Depression – 3

Written by john on February 10th, 2008
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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 recreating [...]

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