The transmission of affect

著者

• Brennan, Teresa

書誌事項

The transmission of affect

Teresa Brennan

Cornell University Press, 2004

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The idea that one can soak up someone else's depression or anxiety or sense the tension in a room is familiar. Indeed, phrases that capture this notion abound in the popular vernacular: "negative energy," "dumping," "you could cut the tension with a knife." The Transmission of Affect deals with the belief that the emotions and energies of one person or group can be absorbed by or can enter directly into another. The ability to borrow or share states of mind, once historically and culturally assumed, is now pathologized, as Teresa Brennan shows in relation to affective transfer in psychiatric clinics and the prevalence of psychogenic illness in contemporary life. To neglect the mechanism by which affect is transmitted, the author claims, has serious consequences for science and medical research. Brennan's theory of affect is based on constant communication between individuals and their physical and social environments. Her important book details the relationships among affect, energy, and "new maladies of the soul," including attention deficit disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, codependency, and fibromyalgia.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA74637256
• ISBN:
  • 0801439981
• LCCN: 2003019730
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Ithaca
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 227 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : BF531
  • DC22 : 152.4
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Affect (Psychology) -- Social aspects