ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in this book. The book demonstrates all three levels of biology, psychology and sociology interact in the occurrence and expression of emotion. It provides sufficient information for some selection of the dishes that individual readers might prefer to spend longer over, in addition to those that they might prefer to avoid or merely taste and pass quickly to the next course. The book explains some characteristics of the cognitive approach to emotion in initial remarks on Aristotle and his current functionalist influence on philosophy and psychology. It highlights some aspect of the Schematic Propositional Analogical and Associative Representation Systems approach (SPAARS) approach rather than setting out to provide a full and complete account. However, before launching into detailed accounts of cognitive models of emotion and the emotional disorders, it is first necessary to provide some groundwork about the cognitive approach.