About Me & Emotions
- The scientific study of emotion really grabbed me while I was at Rutgers in the 1980’s, and it’s stuck with me throughout my clinical training and practice.
- As I think about and try to help clients feel better, I find it useful to work with a small set of basic, universal emotions, each of which evolved in animals and humans to help us solve specific survival problems quickly and effectively.
- And, while the set of basic emotions is small, the variations on them are endless, so, like snowflakes, no one emotional experience we have is exactly like any other.
- Using our highly evolved brains’ sophisticated tools allows us to be conscious of our emotions, and to wonder, often with great frustration, why we are feeling them.