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Psychosomatic Medicine 7:210-214 (1945)
© 1945 American Psychosomatic Society

Towards a Clarification of the Concept of Emotion

NINA BULL 1

1 Research Associate in Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

A neuro-muscular sequence is offered in which the "expression" of emotion is first divided into two serial phases of motor attitude and action.

Feeling is then shown as belonging to an intermediate stage, being dependent on a delay occurring after the assumption of a preliminary motor attitude. It is actually the feeling of the motor attitude and indicates a holding up of final adequate activity.

This sequence in three stages is suggested (a) as explaining the seemingly divergent points of view of Darwin, James and Dewey; and (b) as offering a concrete basis for the study of conflicting motor attitudes and resulting psychosomatic symptoms.






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