ABSTRACT
This chapter presents empirical studies of emotional processes, relevant to affective dysfunctions, cardiac illness and criminal behavior, using a comprehensive process method described herein. The populations studied include normal subjects, psychiatric patients, and inmates at a prison facility. Process theory (PT) provides a research methodology, a clinical approach, a social program, a mathematical dialectic logic, and a world view, by integrating dynamics and psychodynamics within the framework of physiology. The complexity of psychological processes is encoded in sequences of action potentials, which in turn are embodied in the physical movement of ions. Because complex processes organize the simpler levels that, by necessity, encode them, the same forms exist at all levels within an organism. Modern physiology provides scientific bases to psychology and to epistemology and suggests general physical principles. In Ancient Greece, physiology was born as a biological model for the laws of nature.
