"Using Warmer Emotions To Melt Past Traumas”

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“Using Warmer Emotions To Melt Past Traumas”

My Inaugural Lecture

by Professor Bob Johnson

Synopsis: EMOTIONS can never be investigated scientifically. This is because Science prioritises OBJECTIVITY, whereas emotions are 100% SUBJECTIVE. The trouble is that Science has such a grip on the popular imagination, that discussing emotions in this way struggles to be heard – being countercultural makes progress hard. Here, despite this, a 1977 comic strip, below, shows how devastating emotions can be, even reducing a grown adult to dithering infant. Yet, though blindingly obvious to the normal observer, it comes as a surprise that Science can offer nothing by way of explanation. Clinically, this is “Speechless-Terror” at work – showing how emotions distort coherent, civilised thinking, as they do throughout violence, crime, murder, psychiatry, and war. Videos are deployed to show a man struggling as Bernard does, and then succeeding where Bernard does not. Verbatim evidence from a serial-killer demonstrates equal progress. A more optimistic vista is opened.

The comic strip

When: Wednesday, 9 November 2022

18:00 – 20:00, BOLTON UNIVERSITY,

BL3 5AB, UK.

Link: https://bolton.zoom.us/j/95303999921?pwd=UzdQVUIxMVdrWGdpTit1QXJEa29vQT09

Meeting ID: 953 0399 9921 Passcode: 338299

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