Human Feelings: Explorations in Affect Development and Meaning

455 Pages·1993·8.14 MB·English

by  Steven L. Ablon

Human Feelings
Explorations in Affect
Development and Meaning
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Human Feelings
Explorations in Affect
Development and Meaning
edited by
Steven L. Ablon
Daniel Brown
Edward J. Khantzian
John E. Mack
THE ANALYTIC PRESS
1993 Hillsdale, NJ London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Human feelings : explorations in affect development and meaning /
edited by Steven Ablon . . . [et al.].
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-88163-144-2
1. Emotions. 2. Affect (Psychology) I. Ablon, Steven L.
BF511.H85 1993
152.4—dc20 93-14309
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Printed in the United States of America
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In memory of our friends and colleagues,
Sarah Haley and Jerome Sashin,
whose untimely deaths
in the course of this project we deeply mourn.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Contributors xi
Introduction—Steven L. Ablon xiii
PART I
THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
1 / Affective Development, Psychopathology,
and Adaptation—Daniel Brown 5
2 / Affect and Character—Allen J. Palmer 67
3 / On Understanding Gender Differences in the Expression
of Emotion—Leslie R. Brody 87
PART II
AFFECT AND THE LIFE CYCLE
4 / The Therapeutic Action of Play and Affect
in Child Analysis—Steven L. Ablon 127
5 / Affective Interactions in Families
with Young Children—Alexandra Murray Harrison 145
6 / Problems with Affect Tolerance in the Analysis
of an Adolescent Girl—Stephanie Smith 161
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7 / Empathy, Virtuality, and the Birth of Complex
Emotional States: Do We Find or Do We Create
Feelings in the Other?—Alfred Margulies 181
8 / Affect in the Elderly: Do Older People
Feel Differently?—Alexander C. Morgan 203
PART III
TRAUMA, ADDICTION, AND PSYCHOSOMATICS
9 / Biological Considerations About Emotions, Trauma,
Memory, and the Brain—Bessel A. van der Kolk 221
10 / I Feel a Little Sad: The Application of Object Relations
Theory to the Hypnotherapy of Posttraumatic
Stress Disorders in Vietnam Veterans—Sarah Haley 241
11 / Affects and Addictive Suffering: A Clinical
Perspective—Edward J. Khantzian 259
12 / Stress and Emotion: Implications for Illness
Development and Wellness—Daniel Brown 281
PART IV
TRANSFORMATIONS OF AFFECT
13 / Theory and Its Relation to Early Affective
Experience—Daniel Jacobs 305
14 / Duke Ellington: The Creative Process and the Ability
to Experience and Tolerate Affect—Jerome I. Sashin 317
15 / The Passions of Nationalism and Beyond: Identity
and Power in International Relations—John E. Mack 333
PART V
NEW DIRECTIONS
16 / Nonordinary States of Consciousness and the Accessing
of Feelings—John E. Mack 357
17 / The Path of Meditation: Affective Development
and Psychological Weil-Being—Daniel Brown 373
Index 403
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are grateful to the family members, friends, and colleagues who
carefully read and criticized this manuscript and made many valuable
suggestions. Individual members of the Harvard Affect Study Group
especially want to thank Dr. Gridth Ablon, Dr. Doris Bargen, Cliff Cohen,
Η. Η. The Dali Lama, Dr. Paul David, Michael Dysart, Dr. Michael Forte,
Dr. John Gedo, Dr. Jules Glenn, Marushka Glissen, Rene Goodale, Dr.
Allen Gurwitt, Professor Allen Guttman, Dr. Judith Huizenga, Dr. John
Kafka, Dr. Henry Krystal, Dr. Samual Kaplan, Dr. Rona Knight, Dr. Joyce
McDougall, Dr. William Meissner, Theodore Melnechuk, Dr. Michael
Miller, Dr. Malkah Notman, Dr. Nancy Feingold-Palmer, Dr. Randall Paul­
sen, Dr. Jalna Perry, Dr. Susan Rosbrau Reich, Bonnie Sashin, Dr. Lisa
Selin, Dr. Martha Stark, Dr. Patricia Wright, and Kalsang Yeshe.
We also want to acknowledge the generous support of the Rockefeller
Foundation and the parents and students in the public school systems of
Milton, Norwood, and Watertown, Massachusetts for making possible the
gender role research. We wish to extend special thanks to the American
Institute of Indian Studies, which funded, in part, the research on ad­
vanced meditators in South Asia. We want to thank the staff of the Office
of Cultural Affairs for the Tibetan Government in exile.
The Harvard Affect Study Group is particularly indebted to Helen
Modica and Patricia Carr, who have been characteristically diligent and
devoted to supporting this project. A special thanks is extended to Joan
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