TY - GEN
ID - cogprints384
UR - http://cogprints.org/384/
A1 - Valent, Paul
Y1 - 1998///
N2 - The aim of this paper is to present a new synthetic perspective. The synthesis includes observations from a number of disciplines such as physiology, medicine psychiatry, and traumatology, underpinned by evolutionary biology. The framework, it is suggested, can help to reexamine and clarify important philosophical questions. They include old and new dichotomies such as those of mind-body, scientific-humanist, reductionist-whole, and linear-non-linear. Further, the framework affords perhaps for the first time, a logical basis for, and initial heuristic categorizations of specifically human qualities including emotions, morality, values, meanings and purpose. An innate language may parallel the logical base and categorizations. The perspective has practical clinical applications, but perhaps more importantly, it contributes to an overall view of humans.
PB - Brunner/Mazel, Philadelphia
KW - evolution
KW - emotions
KW - physiological responses
KW - trauma
KW - sociobiology
KW - biopsychosocial
KW - stress
KW - illnesses
KW - strain
KW - fulfillment
KW - happiness
KW - unhappiness
KW - ethics
KW - morals
KW - principles
KW - meanings
KW - wisdom
KW - social responses
KW - appraisals
KW - survival survival strategies
KW - strategies of survival
KW - fight
KW - flight
KW - rescue
KW - attachment
KW - grief
KW - loss
KW - adaptation
KW - competition
KW - struggle
KW - cooperation
KW - love
KW - murder
KW - wickedness
TI - A New Synthetic Framework; The Wholist Perspective
SP - 1
AV - public
EP - 205
ER -