ABSTRACT
Too frequently, emotions and feelings are used synonymously. The author, in previous chapters, has distinguished between experiences of physical things and nonsensory cognitions. This chapter makes the same distinction. Emotions are experiences of different limbic processes like the NS and adrenaline rushes (fear). The person uses two vocabularies. First are early childhood feelings, frequently used in an intensely emotional relationship and second, feelings created later in life, which are shaped by cultural practice. Feelings are experiences of cognitive processes like explanations. By recognizing the structural relationship of the selves, feelings, and personal realities which together make up the person (Ch.8), we can describe personality with a depth of understanding and complexity found in parts of the nonlinear wisdom of Eastern philosophies and the emotional beauty found in the arts of literature and drama. This paradigmatic shift enables the author to propose a theory of emotionality that is useful for psychotherapists. It will be described in the next chapter.
