ABSTRACT
The present chapter is the fulcrum of the book. In it we draw together the ideas from the first four chapters and carry over the central points to develop an outline for a cognitive model of “normal” emotional experience-of emotional order. We then illustrate how this framework has the potential to embrace the variety of “abnormal” emotional experiences-emotional disorder. We expand on this analysis of emotional order and disorder in the chapters that follow, in which we focus on the basic emotions of fear, sadness, anger, disgust, and happiness.
