Welcome

• Subcortical relief by Nils Petter Lauvrak, 5/5/97
  
  

Good to have you join us! We are interested in any aspect of emotion, and the ideas you offer are most welcome. I will try to get the article you mention, but it would help if you could give more information about it. As for the application of affect/script theory in psychotherapy, you might have your bookseller get you a copy of our 1996 multi-author book "Knowing Feeling: Affect, Script, and Psychotherapy," published by W.W. Norton. My 1992 book "Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self" represented an attempt to make affect theory accessible to a wide audience.

This is an exciting time for those of us who have been looking for better ways of helping our patients. Although these theories of Tomkins are now more than 30 years old, they are new to the great mass of our colleagues and a refreshing source of ideas. Many in our group have worked hard to link each of the innate affects to specific biochemical pathways within the brain, and to explain psychopharmacology on the basis of alterations in the hardware for innate affect.

I hope you and your colleagues will let us know more about your ideas, about the work you have done, and your hopes for future study.

• A Word of Thanks to Don Nathanson by Michael Simon, 5/6/97
  • Feels good by Don Nathanson, 5/7/97
    • Response to Don by Michael Simon, 5/7/97
      • Men/Woman and True Abortion by Ed Riemann MSW LCSW, 5/8/97
      • 90210 by Don Nathanson, 5/8/97
        • Men and Abortion, even in Beverly Hills by Michael Simon, 5/10/97