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Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain: Review Article

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Author: Watt, Douglas

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 11, Number 9, 2004, pp. 77-82(6)

Publisher: Imprint Academic

Once deemed not respectable as a scientific domain, when behaviourist doctrine held sway, emotion is now an exploding subject of compelling attraction to a wide range of disciplines in psychology and neuroscience. Recent work suggests that the concept of 'affective regulation' has become a buzzword in these areas. Disciplines involved include not only affective neuroscience, but also cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, clinical psychiatric studies into syndromes of emotion dys-regulation (such as borderline personality, PTSD, mood disorders, and many other syndromes), various psychotherapy approaches, and several others, e.g. the increasingly popular fields of meditation and relaxation training. However, the overall conceptualization of emotion and its close ties to cognitive processes continues to befuddle many theorists and researchers, for various reasons. Mario Beauregard (ed.), Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004. 294 pp. ISBN 1588114589)

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 January 2004

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