Sentimientos, afectos y lógica afectiva. Su lugar en nuestra comprensión del otro y del mundo.

El peso de los sentimientos, las emociones o los afectos en nuestra comprensión del prójimo y del mundo es un tema eludido conscientemente, durante mucho tiempo, por la ciencia y los científicos. Y esto se explica por las numerosas contradicciones e inexactitudes que, desde siempre, han enturbiado el problema de tales sentimientos. Sin embargo, es cierto que todos nosotros somos, de alguna manera, «expertos en sentimientos» e, incluso, también es verdad que vivimos toda nuestra vida, como bien decía Hermann Hesse, esencialmente «a través de los sentimientos». Aunque, por otro lado, no sabemos, o al menos la ciencia no lo sabe con certeza, qué es un sentimiento, cuál es su significado y cómo actúa

Sentimientos, afectos y lógica afectiva: Su lugar en nuestra comprensión del otro y del mundo

El peso de los sentimientos, las emociones o los afectos en nuestra comprensión del prójimo y del mundo es un tema eludido conscientemente, durante mucho tiempo, por la ciencia y los científicos. Y esto se explica por las numerosas contradicciones e inexactitudes que, desde siempre, han enturbiado el problema de tales sentimientos. Sin embargo, es cierto que todos nosotros somos, de alguna manera, «expertos en sentimientos» e, incluso, también es verdad que vivimos toda nuestra vida, como bien decía Hermann Hesse, esencialmente «a través de los sentimientos». Aunque, por otro lado, no sabemos, o al menos la ciencia no lo sabe con certeza, qué es un sentimiento, cuál es su significado y cómo actúa

The process of recovery of people with mental illness: The perspectives of patients, family members and care providers: Part 1

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>It is a qualitative design study that examines points of divergence and convergence in the perspectives on recovery of 36 participants or 12 triads. Each triad comprising a patient, a family member/friend, a care provider and documents the procedural, analytic of triangulating perspectives as a means of understanding the recovery process which is illustrated by four case studies. Variations are considered as they relate to individual characteristics, type of participant (patient, family, member/friend and care provider), and mental illness. This paper which is part of a larger study and is based on a qualitative research design documents the process of recovery of people with mental illness: Developing a Model of Recovery in Mental Health: A middle range theory.</p> <p><b>Methods</b></p> <p>Data were collected in field notes through semi-structured interviews based on three interview guides (one for patients, one for family members/friends, and one for caregivers). Cross analysis and triangulation methods were used to analyse the areas of convergence and divergence on the recovery process of all triads.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>In general, with the 36 participants united in 12 triads, two themes emerge from the cross-analysis process or triangulation of data sources (12 triads analysis in 12 cases studies). Two themes emerge from the analysis process of the content of 36 interviews with participants: (1) <it>Revealing dynamic context</it>, situating patients in their dynamic context; and (2) <it>Relationship issues in a recovery process</it>, furthering our understanding of such issues. We provide four case studies examples (among 12 cases studies) to illustrate the variations in the way recovery is perceived, interpreted and expressed in relation to the different contexts of interaction.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The perspectives of the three participants (patients, family members/friends and care providers) suggest that recovery depends on constructing meaning around mental illness experiences and that the process is based on each person's dynamic context (e.g., social network, relationship), life experiences and other social determinants (e.g., symptoms, environment). The findings of this study add to existing knowledge about the determinants of the recovery of persons suffering with a mental illness and significant other utilizing public mental health services in Montreal, Canada.</p

Affect-Logic, Embodiment, Synergetics, and the Free Energy Principle: New Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Schizophrenia

This theoretical paper explores the affect-logic approach to schizophrenia in light of the general complexity theories of cognition: embodied cognition, Haken’s synergetics, and Friston’s free energy principle. According to affect-logic, the mental apparatus is an embodied system open to its environment, driven by bioenergetic inputs of emotions. Emotions are rooted in goal-directed embodied states selected by evolutionary pressure for coping with specific situations such as fight, flight, attachment, and others. According to synergetics, nonlinear bifurcations and the emergence of new global patterns occur in open systems when control parameters reach a critical level. Applied to the emergence of psychotic states, synergetics and the proposed energetic understanding of emotions lead to the hypothesis that critical levels of emotional tension may be responsible for the transition from normal to psychotic modes of functioning in vulnerable individuals. In addition, the free energy principle through learning suggests that psychotic symptoms correspond to alternative modes of minimizing free energy, which then entails distorted perceptions of the body, self, and reality. This synthetic formulation has implications for novel therapeutic and preventive strategies in the treatment of psychoses, among these are milieu-therapeutic approaches of the Soteria type that focus on a sustained reduction of emotional tension and phenomenologically oriented methods for improving the perception of body, self, and reality

Sentimientos, afectos y lógica afectiva. Su lugar en nuestra comprensión del otro y del mundo.

El peso de los sentimientos, las emociones o los afectos en nuestra comprensión del prójimo y del mundo es un tema eludido conscientemente, durante mucho tiempo, por la ciencia y los científicos. Y esto se explica por las numerosas contradicciones e inexactitudes que, desde siempre, han enturbiado el problema de tales sentimientos. Sin embargo, es cierto que todos nosotros somos, de alguna manera, «expertos en sentimientos» e, incluso, también es verdad que vivimos toda nuestra vida, como bien decía Hermann Hesse, esencialmente «a través de los sentimientos». Aunque, por otro lado, no sabemos, o al menos la ciencia no lo sabe con certeza, qué es un sentimiento, cuál es su significado y cómo actúa