1. Consider any of the disorders (or types of disorder) in Chapters 12 or 13 and/or the associated readings.
a. What is the role of emotion/affect dysregulation in the onset or maintenance of this disorder?
b. How can the science of emotions (“affective science”) inform and improve clinical treatment of this disorder?
2. What is unique about positive (vs. negative) emotions, and why are positive good for us (beyond just feeling pleasant), according to Broaden and Build theory? How could this theory be applied to treatment of an emotion-based disorder?
3. What, according to Frijda (reading and also mentioned in Chapter 14), is the relationship between the impulsive system and the reflective system?
a. Is one the “slave” to the other, as Hume believed?
b. How does the reflective system exercise free will over the impulsive system, according to Frijda?
4. In psychoanalytic treatment, what is the emotional significance of transference? Why is transference so important in this kind of treatment?
5. Summative course question. Throughout the course we’ve discussed two major paradigms: one that claims the biological reality of primary or basic emotions with built-in facial expressions that have evolved over millenia, and a second that claims the fundamentally constructed nature of emotions where the only biological givens are the affects of pleasantness and arousal.
a. Which do you believe is more valid and useful? That is, do you regard the “true” emotion to be more of a biological event or a mental conception?
b. Is this just another academic debate, or does it matter for the way we do, say, clinical, educational, legal, or medical work?
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