CULTEMO · Cultured Emotions: A Conceptual History of Alexithymia and the Imperative of Emotional Certainty

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Накратко на български

Цел на проекта

CULTEMO’s aim is to examine a set of implicit norms about human emotional life that took shape in the mid-twentieth century and which continue to dominate scientific frameworks and clinical practices to the detriment of patients and progress in the science of emotion. Since the 1970s, researchers and psychiatrists have used the concept of alexithymia to assert that individuals who lack words (lexis) to communicate emotions (thymos) have a potential risk factor for several affective disorders. But not all cultures and languages share the same understanding of human emotional life, or even have equivalent linguistic terms for emotions and feelings, leaving some patients vulnerable to mistreatment in encounters with the psychiatric system. By projecting its perspective as the universal, natural norm for all human beings, the alexithymia construct marginalizes and even pathologizes the diverse ways that individuals make sense of their bodily sentience and the world around them.With alexithymia as a lens, CULTEMO will apply recent evidence and methods from the affective sciences, cross-cultural psychology, social ontology, and the medical humanities to reveal the faulty assumptions of a view of emotions as natural and universal. CULTEMO’s working hypothesis is that an understanding of emotions as situated, relational, and historical can help clinicians practice epistemic humility in encounters with patients who do not operate with the same kinds of emotion scripts or norms as themselves, minorities especially. Building on these historical, philosophical, and scientific insights, CULTEMO will produce educational material for the general public and clinical practice.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

• KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNКоординаторДания
• NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · Boston MaСъединени щати
• SUNDHEDSSTYRELSEN · KobenhavnДания

Връзки

• Виж в CORDIS
• DOI: 10.3030/101202451