I was taking notes on early childhood emotional development from
Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence (1995) where LeDoux was
quoted: "The interactions of life's earliest years lay down a set of
emotional lessons based on the attunement and upsets in the contacts
between infant and caretakers."
Now here presents another theory besides PMS for some emotional
episodes that seem quite coming from nowhere: the amygdala, which is
the brain's storehouse of emotional memories, matures earlier and
faster than the other parts of the brain. It allows for the formation
of emotional lessons early on in a person's life – early emotional
memories that are established even before infants have the capacity to
describe or express their experience in words. Thus, some emotional
outbursts in adulthood may be "baffling" even to the person because
there were no words in the first place for the memories that formed
them.
No comments:
Post a Comment