Emotional Excess Research Articles

Integrating cognitive-behavioral therapy and gratitude therapy for treating somatic symptom disorder with schizoid-avoidant personality features: A case report

This study presents a brief treatment report of a 22-year-old-female, with a diagnosis of somatic symptom disorder and exacerbated by schizoid-avoidant personality features. Both conditions induced anxiety and many other difficulties in her functioning. Her negative self-views were the main issues that led to excessive negative emotionality, both internally (somatization) and externally (interpersonal relationship difficulties). The purpose of this case report is to illustrate an integrated treatment process consisting of cognitive-behavioral therapy and gratitude therapy. Gratitude therapy helps to alter the preoccupation of negative perspectives. Conclusions on the effectiveness of treatment were interpreted with an eye on the study’s methodological limitations.

Aggression among adolescents: The role of emotion regulation

Aggressive behavior expressed by adolescents is a worrying phenomenon. There might be circumstances underlying this aggression, such as adaptive or maladaptive emotional conditions. To study the role of emotion regulation toward aggression on adolescents, the researchers performed quantitative correlational research toward 943 secondary school students in the Special Province of Yogyakarta. Data was collected using an emotion regulation scale and an aggression scale. The data was then examined using multiple regression analysis to observe the correlation among variables. The result of this research shows that emotion regulation significantly influences the development of aggression. Further analysis of two strategies on emotion regulation shows that excessive emotion suppression affects the development of aggression, while emotion regulation through cognitive appraisal does not. The implication of this research is emotion regulation through emotion suppression has a more significant influence on the development of aggression on adolescents compared to cognitive appraisal. The stronger emotion suppression method is employed, the higher the level of aggression might be developed.

“A Pleasure of that Too Intense Kind”: Women’s Desires and Identity in Stella Gibbons’s Gothic London

Stella Gibbons (1902-1989) is best known for the rural novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik discuss as “comic Gothic.” In contrast, Gibbons’s little-studied Hampstead novels Westwood (1946) and Here Be Dragons (1956) map a melancholic Gothic fragmented city, marked by the Second World War, in which romantic attachment and marriage threaten young women’s comfort, self sufficiency, and subjectivity. Excessive emotion and eroticism imperil women’s independence and identity, while the men they desire embody the temptation and corruption of the city. Gibbons employs Gothic language of spells, illusion, and entrapment to heighten anxieties around stifling domesticity and sacrificing the self for love. The London Gothic geographies, atmosphere, and doubling of characters and spaces reinforce cautionary tales of the ill-effects of submission to love, while dedication to a career and community are offered as a means to resist Gothic desires and control Gothic spaces. This reading of space and female identity in Gibbons’s London novels is intended to extend and add nuance to scholarship of her works beyond Cold Comfort Farm, and contribute to the emerging study of the “middlebrow Gothic.”

Correlation between individual social capital and humanistic care ability in nursing students: multiple mediating role of positive psychological capital and adaptive emotion expression

Objective To explore the multiple mediating role of positive psychological capital and adaptive emotion expression between individual social capital and humanistic care ability in nursing students. Methods From December 2018 to August 2019, the study selected 238 undergraduate nursing students of Grade 2015 to 2018 by cluster stratified sampling as subjects in a medical university. All of students were investigated with the Caring Ability Inventory, Individual Social Capital Questionnaire, Positive Psychological Capital Scale and Emotional Expression Questionnaire in college students of China. Structure equation model was used to analyze the correlations among the variables. Results Among 238 nursing students, the scores of humanistic care ability, individual social capital, positive psychological capital, inhibitory emotion expression, adaptive emotion expression and excessive emotion expression were (185.79±17.52) , (20.26±2.38) , (125.24±17.71) , (17.23±3.86) , (20.85±3.91) and (9.70±3.97) respectively. Individual social capital, positive psychological capital, adaptive emotion expression and humanistic care ability had positive correlations with each other (r=0.223-0.627, P<0.01) . Multiple mediating effect model analysis showed that the positive psychological capital and adaptive emotion expression had multiple mediating roles between individual social capital and humanistic care ability in nursing students (P<0.05) . The relative mediating effects of positive psychological capital, adaptive emotion expression and chain mediation were 83.37%, 11.64 % and 4.77% respectively. Conclusions Nursing students have a low level of humanistic care ability with the adaptive emotion expression. Nursing educators can improve nursing students' individual social capital, enrich their positive psychological capital and strengthen their adaptive emotion expression so as to cultivate the humanistic care ability. Key words: Students, nursing; Humanistic care ability; Individual social capital; Positive psychological capital; Emotion expression

Scientific activity of professor Andriy Krasnov and its role in the development of modern geography

Purpose. Life, scientific and pedagogical way of А. М. Krasnov at the time of the formation of geography was unique, versatile, often contradictory, but clearly creative and innovative approach to everything that was within his interests. Despite some hasty results that harmed his general authority, the figure of A. M. Krasnov – the professor of Imperial Kharkiv University, the founder of Batumi Botanical Garden – is still of interest. Attention has veen paid to the period of his initial formation as a scientist, communication with V. I. Vernadsky, comparison of A. M. Krasnov’s works with works of other researchers, the implementation of the idea of plant introduction. Method. Authentic scientific works of A. M. Krasnov and his contemporaries have been used in the work. Through the use of historical and historiographical sources and comparative analysis there have been revealed those inconsistencies in his works which caused sharp criticism of reviewers. Results. Studies of the work of the first domestic doctor of geographical sciences Andriy Mykolayovych Krasnov have showed his passion for expeditionary research, charisma, thirst for knowledge, love of nature, rich innovative heritage. Attention has been paid to the initial stage of his life, when the interest in scientific, in particular, expeditionary research, which did not leave him during his life, emerged. Based on the study of the relationship between A. M. Krasnov and V. I. Vernadsky, a conclusion about his extraordinary character, ingrained sense of independence, but also passion, excessive emotionality, haste of conclusions has been made. The authors have given the generalized description of the state of the study of geography, which was considered an auxiliary science in the universities of the Russian Empire in the late XIX century, because for A. M. Krasnov it became a source of innovation. The article reveals the extraordinary scientific courage of A. M. Krasnov, who in his doctoral thesis considered the views of famous scientists on the causes of steppe plains. The analysis of А. М. Krasnov’s publications and other sources has proved that he became the creator of constructive geography, combined theoretical classes with practical ones in nature, initiated student scientific expeditions, founded a student geographical society and a geographical office. Possessing artistic and literary talent, he became one of the best promoters of exotic regions, visiting dozens of countries around the world. The authors have also traced the reasons why his scientific works were treated with skepticism and distrust. Scientific novelty and practical significance. Some details of the relationship between A. M. Krasnov and V. I. Vernadsky have been clarified. The reasons that led to the ignoring of the scientific achievement of A. M. Krasnov by contemporaries have been revealed. It is expedient to use these materials while writing the full scientific and pedagogical biography of professor A. M. Krasnov.

ЕКСПРЕСИВНИЙ МА-ПОДЯКАВ ДИПЛОМАТИЧНОМУ ДИСКУРСІ РАДИ БЕЗПЕКИ ООН

The subject of the study is the structure and pragmatics of the speech acts (SA) of gratitude in the speeches of the country representatives at the UN Security Council meetings. The objective of the study is to identify the structural and pragmatic properties of the diplomatic discourse of the SA of gratitude, exemplified by modern speeches in English during the meetings of the UN Security Council in a chronological scope. During this investigation the method of comparison in various forms of gratitude by diplomats was used. Also, this method is used in the chronological sampling of the SA of gratitude. At the same time, the method of synthesis is used for the processing of the theoretical basis of the study. Results of the study. Protocol gratitude is somewhat different from everyday gratitude, at least in the aspect of the speaker status, where his/her position in society is of primary importance here. Usually diplomatic gratitude is restrained, without excessive emotions. Among key features of expressives, the act of committing an action is included. The analysis of the presented examples was carried out with the help of the SVOiOd model, which shows the object of an action, the actual subject of the action and the action itself, that appears in the form of a declared gratitude. Diversified by nature, expressive SAs are not subject for a clear classification, the difference between etiquette and expressive SAs does not seem readily apparent. A characteristic feature of diplomatic gratitude is its publicity, because it emphasizes the importance of some people over others. In order to maintain a positive atmosphere, gratitude can act as a formula for etiquette. This paper has only indirectly touched the issue of expressive speech acts of the diplomatic discourse, that is why there is a bulk of material to analyze in the nearest future. The scientific novelty of this study is that it is the first known study that touches on the structural and pragmatic properties of gratitude SA of modern English speeches in the communicative situation of the UN Security Council. New is the appeal to the structural and pragmatic specifics of such speeches. In order to establish changes in the structure and pragmatics of diplomatic discourse, chronological sampling is performed, covering speeches of the middle and end of the twentieth century. Application. The results of this inquiry are a contribution to the study of diplomatic discourse, and they will provide for a deeper understanding of the correlation between structure, pragmatic content, relevance of selected language units to ensure the success of diplomatic speech.

The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China by Emily Baum

Reviewed by: The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China by Emily Baum Nicole Elizabeth Barnes Emily Baum. The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 267 pp. $112.50 (cloth), $37.50 (paper). The first English-language monograph on the history of madness in modern China, this book offers far more than a compelling story with new information. With clear writing and persuasive argumentation, Emily Baum argues that the treatment of “mad” people and evolving understandings of madness reflect China’s engagement with Western medicine and science, as well as with modernity itself. Following current interpretations of modernity as an interpolated and ongoing encounter, Baum treats Chinese people’s responses to Western psychiatry as means of molding imported institutions and ideas for themselves. She grants agency to intellectual elites and the gravely poor, noting that literary disquisitions and everyday applications of medical care alike constituted key facets of “inventing” forms of modern madness that suited a panoply of needs. In order to analyze Chinese modernity through the story of madness, Baum crafts a narrative that is simultaneously diachronic and synchronic. She traces developments in the understanding of madness from the nineteenth century through the onset of war in 1937 but focuses on Beijing and periodically isolates specific moments to explore the intersections between madness and gender, chronic poverty, and the reconciliation of Chinese and Western medical nosologies and treatment regimes. Such deft combination of two distinct types of historical narrative is difficult to achieve. Baum makes the sutures seamless, granting her readers a pleasurable encounter with a world that is at once deeply contextualized and subject to seismic shifts. Chapter 1 introduces madness in late imperial China as a temporary condition rather than an ontological state. No single medical theory or legal definition applied. Families and patients resorted to a variety of interpretations and treatment methods, including religious healing. The dominant medical theory located pathology in the chest, beginning when an excess of mucous obstructed the function of the seat of consciousness: the heart. Based on an androgynous body, this theory displayed no obvious gendered component. In contrast, both cultural explanations of madness were distinctly gendered. The first theory posited that the root of madness lay in excessive emotion—primarily worry for men, and a host of emotions for women (jealousy, lust, grief, etc.). Many people identified with these experiences and displayed sympathy for those who displayed pathological responses thereto. The second theory attributed madness to moral transgressions. This linked the condition to guilt and shame and caused families to hide or confine their mad relatives. Baum presents these nineteenth-century interpretations as indigenous constructions of madness, wholly consonant with Chinese medical theory and cultural practices and betraying no influence of Western beliefs. Her close attention to this “pre-contact” moment allows her to analyze ensuing developments as Chinese responses to and adaptations of [End Page E-1] Western ideas. It also sets up the narrative in keeping with medical anthropology frameworks that treat illness as a simultaneously biological and cultural phenomenon. Perhaps fortuitously, this also accords with Chinese understandings of mental illness, both then and now, and therefore supports an analysis that grants ontological parity to Chinese and Western belief systems. Chapters 2 through 7 move from the founding of the Beijing insane asylum (the nation’s first) in 1908 through the eve of war in 1937. Chapter 2 details the tremendous pressure that both the late Qing and Republican governments faced to prove their political legitimacy by policing the public in a manner that, Baum argues, transformed madness from a temporary condition to a permanent identity that marked one as deviant and open to discipline. This she terms “an act of political invention” (62) because it satisfied political rather than cultural needs. Chapter 3 employs a clever interpretation of agency to argue that Beijing poor who availed themselves of free institutionalization at the insane asylum served their own needs but also legitimized the expansion of police power and expanded definitions of madness to include socially troublesome but not necessarily ill individuals. Though not directly juxtaposed in Baum’s structure, chapters 4...

SOCIAL NETWORKS AS A FACTOR OF CHANGES IN POLITICAL CULTURE AND POLITICAL PRACTICES IN UKRAINE: RISKS AND PERSPECTIVES

The article analyzes changes in the political culture and political practices of Ukrainian citizens related to the spread of the new Internet communication format – social networks. The characteristics of network communication, such as radical democracy, access to the global information market, rapid implementation of technological innovations, etc, are outlined. The social networks are shown as an important decisive factor of public opinion shaping, political agenda and political culture in Ukraine. This gives rise to specific humanitarian safety risks. It is fixed the threat of information and communication influence by the Russian security services on the consciousness of Ukrainians through social networks. Appropriately it is proposed the measures to minimize this threat, as well as to introduce a more active, offensive strategy in the information and communication field. There are also outlined the risks to national consolidation cased by the low level of communicative culture, excessive emotionality and politicization of Ukrainian network users. Complicating communication strategies has been identified as a promising area for humanitarian policy, as it enables national security to be strengthened without the offensive on free speech or repressive measures. At present, the Ukrainian state is not using this new communication format effectively enough. In this regard, it is proposed to carry out a series of educational activities and initiatives of various levels aimed at promoting the level of communication culture of Ukrainians. Implementation of these measures would help launch the deliberation processes, consolidation of Ukrainian citizens, search for consensus and innovative solutions of the problems that are currently polarizing society. It is shown that such a direction of humanitarian policy is in line with the democratic traditions of Ukrainian political culture and the constitutional foundations of the Ukrainian state.

The Bell Jar: An Inextricable Hysteria of a Woman Consequent of a Distorted Identity

The portrayal of women as ‘Deviant’ has an elongated history. Even the world’s foremost religions and traditions dealing with spirituality often projected women as “uncontrollable.” In literature woman suffering from hysteria have been an engrossing subject. Hysteria as a female condition refers to emotional excess such as fear or panic. The term comes from the Greek word ‘hysterikos’, which means “of the womb.” It was originally seen as a neurotic condition associated with women.

The Bell Jar: An Inextricable Hysteria of a Woman Consequent of a Distorted Identity

The portrayal of women as ‘Deviant’ has an elongated history. Even the world’s foremost religions and traditions dealing with spirituality often projected women as “uncontrollable.” In literature woman suffering from hysteria have been an engrossing subject. Hysteria as a female condition refers to emotional excess such as fear or panic. The term comes from the Greek word ‘hysterikos’, which means “of the womb.” It was originally seen as a neurotic condition associated with women.

The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790–1820. Ed. by Katherine Hambridge and Jonathan Hicks

If melodrama is alive today, it is arguably most familiar as an oft pejorative descriptor of emotional excess. Such excesses might burst forth from stage or screen, the courtroom or the front page, the football pitch or a political rally. Indeed, sightings of the melodramatic can happen almost anywhere: few places are beyond the reach of melodrama’s heightened emotional tenor. Boiled down to their essence, countless creative modes roam freely from their artistic homes to provide a useful shorthand for myriad everyday experiences. The melodramatic, however, has wandered so far that it has lost sight of its natural habitat, a fate shared with other especially mobile, highly malleable expressive genres, such as the art of puppetry and various folkloric traditions. Severed from its historical roots, the melodramatic is, so the editors of this volume counsel, ‘in danger of running away with itself’ (p. 1), of shedding layers of specificity while accruing reductive cultural baggage. For the authors gathered here, it is time to rein melodrama in—for its own sake.

Driven by Grief, Inspired by Christ

AbstractPaul’s enigmatic claim of being “beside himself” (ἐξίστηµι) in 2 Cor 5:13 has been interpreted as a reference to an episode of religious ecstasy, an incident of erratic behavior, or a criticism of Paul’s poor rhetoric and leadership. Among its wide range of meanings, however, ἐξίστηµι denotes excessive emotion; it is used in classical texts to describe those swept away by immoderate anger or grief or even those moved or transported by the power of a rhetor’s words. Drawing on these texts, and following a suggestion by James Kennedy in 1903, the author will argue that in 2 Cor 5:13 Paul is controlling for the legitimate possibility that his prior correspondence with the Corinthians, specifically 2 Corinthians 10–13, might have been seen as furious, emotional, or even violent, and reinterpreting any seemingly immoderate anger or foolish speech as done wholly in service of God and compelled by Christ.

Mediating Melodrama, Staging Sergeant Cuff

When Sergeant Cuff stepped off the page and onto the stage of the Olympic Theatre in Wilkie Collins’s 1877 adaptation of his own wildly successful novel, The Moonstone, he both joined the earliest ranks of the British stage detective and entered the world of melodrama. Though we might expect the rational figure of a detective such as Sergeant Cuff to be incompatible with the emotional excess of melodrama, in this article I show that such an assumption oversimplifies his relationship to melodramatic emotion and overlooks the surprising compatibility of the detective with melodrama’s epistemological and moral investments. I argue that in distinct contrast to the ambiguity and multiplicity instilled by the novel, Cuff allows for the clear resolution expected on the melodramatic stage, proving himself an agent of and for melodramatic style and substance.

Secularised City: Between Religiosity and Spirituality

The article presents one of the most inalienable dimensions of man that is his need for spirituality, which itself demands its proper form, including an architectural one. As modern anthropology states, man is not only a material being, nor only a psychological one, but also has a spiritual dimension. Due to the increasingly weaker role of Christian Churches in Western Europe, there arises the question regarding in what manner and in what sense can a man of the post-modern period satisfy his spirituality? Various religious offerings often do not fully live up to their task. Their propositions are quite often marked by an excessive emotionality and sensibility. Despite all this, we are faced with the question about Church religiosity and Church spirituality in this situation. It is also a matter that is probably more institutional, one that is tied with rationality. Faith, after all, always requires reason.

SENI ISLAM TERAPI MURATTAL ALQURAN SEBAGAI PENDEKATAN KONSELING UNTUK MENGATASI KECEMASAN

Every individual has experienced fear and anxiety in life. This is usually caused by excessive emotions, fear of the future, inner contradictions, or something that happens unexpectedly. Islamic counseling is considered to be able to overcome the spiritual emptiness that is often the cause of mental disorientation of modern humans. One method that can be implemented in the context of counseling therapy is murattal (chanting) the Qur’an. With descriptive and analytical approaches, namely narrating the characteristics of an object holistically and systematically, this article explains the steps of counseling therapy through Islamic art, which in this case is the murattal art of the Qur’an. This paper concludes that murattal of the Qur’an can be an alternative approach in the practice of Islamic counseling.

La photographie et le récit du mal

The French neurologist, Jean-Martin Charcot, linked his name to studies on hysteria. The documentation of his work at the Salpetriere Hospital, in Paris, shows how any sign of emotional excess was recorded and classified through the photographic medium. These images provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere (1878). In the photos of Salpetriere’s patients, the image takes over the disease. The photographic medium was not a neutral witness, but influenced the performance of hysteria. In years when photography seems able to unveil human character and to separate good from bad (as shown by the research by Bertillon and Lombroso), the photographic gaze is soon screwed on itself, seduced by the density of the images.

Last Kiss The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby: An Edition of the Manuscript

Last Kiss The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby: An Edition of the Manuscript

Barbarie, émotion et altérité : les affects « excessifs » de la slavité fin-de-siècle dans Les Noronsoff de Jean Lorrain

Amidst all the collective emotions prevailing in 19th century France, a remarkable one is fear, which can be perceived in the myth of Barbarian invasions. The opposition between the so-called “civilized” and “barbarian” men is rooted in the emotional excess and disorders which are thought to affect the latter. In Jean Lorrain ’s Les Noronsoff (1902) a Russian character, whose excessive actions are both comical and pathetic, embodies fin-de-siecle barbary. In the racialist ideology of that time, Slavic people were said to lack a stable nature and to tend to imitation and metamorphosis. This choice of a Slavic character illustrates the variation between (civilized) identity and (barbarian) alterity. Slavic barbary, which combines the two faces of barbary (interior and exterior), reveals both the fear and the fascination raised when contemplating emotional flows spreading without control, and reflecting one ’s own identity.

Muzy Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego i Henryka Sienkiewicza

The paper discusses two prominent figures in Polish literature, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887) and Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916), and the role women played in their lives, influencing their works. In the beginning, the author devotes some attention to the role of ‘muses’ and their inspiration to artists from Antiquity to Romanticism. In the analytical part of her paper, she presents the differences between these two masters of the quill. Kraszewski let excessive emotions take the reins in his private life, as a consequence of which he frequently misplaced his affections, suffering considerable disappointments. Sienkiewicz, although highly susceptible to female charms, was more mature, as is well reflected in his works. His life experience influenced the artistic maturity of his female protagonists. Thus, towards the end of his life, he was able to conclude that love was the highest value. The ‘muses’ of this first Polish Nobel laureate in literature exerted a profound influence on the literary profile of the heroines of his greatest novels.

The Gender and Sexuality of Armenia

The Gender and Sexuality of Armenia