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Patterns of Emotions: A New Analysis of Anxiety and Depression provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of anxiety and depression phenomena experienced in some degree by everyone and in crippling intensity by many. This book is a sequel to The Face of Emotion (Izard, 1971), which presented a general conceptual framework for the study of the personality, a theory of the emotions, and evidence for the universality of the fundamental emotions of interest, joy, surprise, distress, anger, disgust, contempt, shame, and fear. The book defines the problems of anxiety and depression, in the framework of differential emotion theory, as combinations or patterns of interacting fundamental emotions and bodily feelings. The differential emotion theory of anxiety and depression is compared with psychoanalytic theory, cognitive theory, and biogenetic theory. A number of studies are presented which support the differential emotion analysis of anxiety and depression. The book also presents studies of various life situations in which a particular fundamental emotion is dominant. What has been found repeatedly is that, in each such situation, the dominant emotion occurs in a pattern of dynamically related fundamental emotions. The patterns for a variety of commonly experienced and universal emotion situations are presented and discussed.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Patterns of Emotions: A New Analysis of Anxiety and Depression
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE. The Emotions and Their Neurophysiological Substrates
- CHAPTER TWO. The Neurophysiology and Biochemistry of Fear and Anxiety
- CHAPTER THREE. Anxiety as a Variable Combination of Interacting Fundamental Emotions
- CHAPTER FOUR. Differential Emotion Theory in Relation to Classical Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Theories of Emotion and Anxiety
- CHAPTER FIVE. An Empirical Analysis of Anxiety in Terms of Discrete Emotions
- CHAPTER SIX. A Dimensional and Discrete Emotions Investigation of the Subjective Experience of Emotion
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Neurophysiologica! and Biochemical Factors in Depression
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Psychoanalytic Theories of Depression
- CHAPTER NINE. Biogenetic, Sociocultural, and Cognitive Factors in Depression
- CHAPTER TEN. Depression as a Pattern of Emotions and Feelings: Factor-Analytic Investigations
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Differential Emotion Theory and the Empirical Analysis of Depression
- References
- Subject Index