ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with emotional disturbance instead of emotion, for reasons to be made plain. It is not concerned mainly with sham rage and the hypothalamus or with emotion as a kind of awareness, or with emotion as it may exist in states of quiet affection and the like. Since the work of Bard, the phenomenon of sham rage and its dependence on the posterior hypothalamus have held the center of the stage in the theory of emotion. Traditionally, emotion is awareness, an event in consciousness. The point to be clarified is the distinction between emotional disturbance and those processes which are inherently organizing and motivating. A paper by Leeper has urged that all emotion be considered to have such an integrating function. Mental illness consists either of a chronic disturbance of time relations in the cerebrum, or a lasting distortion of the thought process from such a disturbance at an earlier time.
