Aspects of theSelf :

Emotional Self
EMOTION
Emotions!
What is Emotion McKay, Wood and
Brantley
Linehan, M.
“Are signals within
“A full system your body that tell
response” you what is
happening”
 What is Emotion
Burkitt, I.
“Emotions are themselves
patterns of relationships,
processes of embodied
evaluation that tells us what or
whom is of importance to us in
the various situations that
compose our lives.”
 Fact
Emotions are normal
part of being a human
Eich, J. (2015)
 Fact
We are born with
emotions wired into
our brain
DBT
Primary Emotions
 Secondary Emotions

• Emotional reaction to an emotion

• Combination of the primary emotions
• Learned emotions
EMOTIONS
are
Important
01 Communication
02 Motivation
02 Information
• Survive
• Remember people and
situation
• Cope with situation
• Communicate with
others
• Avoid pain
• Seek pleasure
Emotional Self
“Humans are understood as
embodied emotional selves for
who thought and emotion are
intertwined” (Burkitt, 2018)
• Embodiment theory
- that we use our own bodily experience and processes to
understand our own emotional experience, and the experiences
of others – has provided a mechanism to help us understand
emotional processing.
- This theory emphasizes the impact of the body on emotional
experience and postulates that emotions are constructed from
multi-modal inputs.
Reed and Moody, 2018
“It is within relations and
communicative interactions with
others to whom we are directed
that the emotional self is
formed”(Burkitt, 2018).
“ Although feelings and emotions are
themselves evaluations that develop through
interactions with others and can become
embodied as dispositions, we also make
evaluations about our feelings and emotions”
(Burkitt, 2018).
“Dealing with our emotions and thoughts more
effectively involves not simply better control or
regulation of emotion but instead developing a self
that can be more in touch with its emotions and
also, through them, with the situations that
compose its life experiences” (Burkitt, 2018).
“Emotional self
arises through
embodied social
interactions”
(Pagis,2012;Burkitt,2018)
 Thanks!

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