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in circular loops. Cognitive elements with similar affective connotations tend to be linked, while dissimilar elements tend to be repressed. These ongoing filtering and switching effets (so-called “operator-effects”) of emotions on cognition lead to selective generalizations such as “a wonderful country”, “a dangerous place”, “a nasty person” etc. All our thoughts and behaviours, and even scientific and mathematical reasoning, are influenced by open or hidden affective components. Unsolved cognitive problems and contradictions are associated with emotional tension, while good solutions are associated with pleasure and relaxation (e.g. the intense pleasure initially related to a new technology, or the so-called eureka feelings related to important discoveries). With increasing habituation and automatization, these initial feelings become largely unconscious, but continue to exert their motivating, selecting and organizing operator-effects.
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sexuality, overcoming losses. Through affects, body and mind are able to quickly adapt to changing environmental conditions, by categorising between pleasant or unpleasant, harmless or dangerous, beautiful or ugly situations or objects, friends or enemies, food, shelter, etc. At a further level, individual affects can spread out to wider, collective levels through mechanisms of emotional contagion, thus creating affect-specific collective modes of feeling, thinking and behaving. Examples are collective enthusiasm or depression after a victory or defeat e.g. in an important sports competition, or the opposing “logics of war” of the different parties in an armed conflict.
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states of variable quality, duration and degree of consciousness”. So-called ”basic emotions” or affects, which are deeply rooted in evolution, include mainly curiosity, fear, anger, pleasure / love, and mourning. They can overlap, combine and differentiate with many subtle nuances. Affective states may be short or long lasting, strong or mild, clearly felt in body and mind or remain largely unconscious, continuing however to influence thought, behaviour and bodily functions.
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when similar situations occur. FTB patterns of all kinds and importance are the essential building blocks of the psyche, and their network builds what Ciompi calls an “affective-cognitive
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on social systems, positing that social dynamics can only be adequately understood by taking into account the energizing, motivating, filtering and organizing effects of collective emotions on collective thought and behaviour. Affect-logics has found further applications in the fields of philosophy, pedagogy, the problem of consciousness and, most recently, robotics.
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vulnerable individuals, under the impact of overtaxing emotional tensions related to stressful situations or events. This hypothesis is strongly supported by numerous empirical studies revealing significant statistical relations between situations of so-called high expressed emotions and the outbreak of acute psychotic symptoms.
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According to affect-logics, conscious or unconscious affects related to present or past experiences continually exert selective activating or inhibiting effects on all cognitive functions. Specific cognitions trigger specific emotions (i.e. affects), and specific emotions trigger specific cognitions,
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The notion of logics, too, is conceived in a broad sense: It is defined as “the way in which cognitive elements are combined in order to form broader mental constructions” , thus including both formal (Aristotelian) and informal everyday logics, as well as various forms of affect-specific logics (see
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As an alternative based on affect-logics, he proposes a treatment of acute psychotic states focused on a sustained reduction of emotional tensions, induced mainly by a milieu-therapeutical and psychotherapeutical approach in small, supporting, and as normal as possible therapeutic settings, in close
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The affect-logics model has been used to analyze extremist mentalities, particularly those on the far right, as well as the role played by collective emotions in historical movements such as national socialism or the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was also used to challenge Niklas Luhmann's work
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According to the hypothesis of affect-logics, the outbreak of psychotic disorders in a formerly non-psychotic person follows similar mechanisms. Such an outbreak is understood as a typical bifurcation in the ordinary feel-think-behave patterns, which can occur in (genetically and/or biographically)
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In the third phase – the long-term evolution after a first psychotic episode – critically increasing emotional tensions again play a crucial role in provoking acute relapses. Affect logics argues that the typical social retreat, indifference and so-called emotional flatness which often prevails in
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Given the energizing function of affects, affect-logics postulates that FTB-patterns, driven by emotional energy, exhibit typical properties of open dynamic systems in the sense of the general system theory. Hence, current so-called chaos-theoretical notions on the energy-based dynamics of complex
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According to affect-logics, emotions, cognitive processes and behaviours which occur simultaneously are associated in memory as integrated patterns (or “programs”) of feeling, thinking and behaving (so-called “FTB patterns”), which store past experiences and influence future thinking and behaviour
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In some subsequent reviews, the notion of affect-logics has also been challenged for lack of testability and, as a result, for being a-theoretical. However, a set of eight testable working hypotheses on affect-logics has been formulated by Ciompi in a joint paper with
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specific situations or objects. Affects thus function as the essential motivators, energizers, and (through their categorizing and complexity reducing operator effects) organizers of all individual and social thought, behaviour and communication. These energizing properties of affects, too, are
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The concept of affect-logics has been criticised as difficult to define and measure, making it challenging to apply consistently in research. Some critics also argue that affect-logics places too much emphasis on emotions as the primary drivers of behaviour, and overlooks the role of cognitive
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Chaos theory has shown, in particular, that increasing energetic tensions drive all kinds of open dynamic systems far away from equilibrium, and provoke, when reaching a critical level of tension, sudden non linear changes (so-called bifurcations) in their global patterns of functioning.
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Ciompi, L. (1998): Is schizophrenia an affective disease? The hypothesis of affect-logic and its implications for psychopathology.In: Flack W.F., Laird J.D.(eds) Emotions in psychopathology: theory and research. Oxford
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Ciompi, L., Panksepp, J. (2005):. Energetic effects of emotions on cognitions-complementary psychobiological and psychosocial findings. In Ellis, R., Newton, N.. (eds) Consciousness and
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In the first, premorbid period a specifically vulnerable “schizophrenogenic terrain” is slowly building up through repeated situations of high emotional tension, as a result of unfavourable genetic dispositions and/or difficult life situations.
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and other mental conditions, and later elaborated into a general meta-theory on the interactions between emotion and cognition, expanding from the individual level (psychology etc.) to collective phenomena (sociology, politics and more).
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stringently performed randomised controlled trials. Overall, the quantity and quality of empirical support for the beneficial effects of the Soteria approach is still limited, and further research is necessary.
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A further fundamental property of affective states, according to affect-logics, is that they activate (or sometimes inhibit) biological energies, roughly directed either
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Mosher, L. (1999): Soteria an other alternatives to acute psychiatric hospitalisation. A personal and professional review. J. of Nerv. And Ment. Disease 187:142-149
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against new and highly painful outbreaks of acute psychotic symptoms, which may in the long run become hardwired in the brain by the mechanism of
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Soteria Bern, founded in 1984 by Luc Ciompi. Treatment methods at Soteria Bern are based on the principles of Ciompi's work on affect-logics.
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Panksepp. Furthermore, basic elements of the concept are supported by a computer-simulation of elementary affective-cognitive interactions.
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