Dr. Kenneth Isaacs Announces Findings Surrounding the False Common Wisdom of Mental Disorders, and the Fort Hood Events
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 08, 2014 -- “Despite the lengthy list of human troubles that arise from false common wisdom about emotion, that misguidance about facts of the nature of emotion continues to be accepted as truth. Past icons including both Socrates and Aristotle endorsed those false truths. Continuing today, most authors, philosophers, theologians, and psychological theorists allow themselves to be trapped by that mistake: They continue to believe those same false truths that have limited human life over ages.” says psychological theorist, Dr. Kenneth Isaacs. He describes how emotion storm disorders are cause of many of those Fort Hood type of tragic events. He also describes how the military could cure, but more important how they could prevent such troubles
He first witnessed this own and the variety of responses of a couple thousand fellow soldiers on the deck of a ship responded to threat of immediate death during a Nazi submarine attack. Later, in his studies during decades of exploration of the nature of emotion in State of Illinois clinics, University of Illinois Medical School, and his private practice he discovered how, “emotion is an important part of the sensory-perceptual-consciousness sequence which is what keeps us informed of reality.” He says, “Few, if any, could survive without that built-in autonomous system of functions enabling moment by moment knowledge of the reality of whatever is.”
Isaacs points out, “Trouble starts in any person from the mistaken belief that emotion is a trivial set of events that have little if any meaning and are a blight interfering with human life. By categorizing pleasing feelings as good and displeasing feelings as bad, instead of recognizing all feelings as very useful, people lose the vital life preserving value of that informational function. Those people are in serious trouble with themselves”
“Tragic occurrences, similar to the current Fort Hood tragedy, arise in people who shift from using feeling information as guidance to reality. When, instead of using that information, they oppose unwanted feeling and ignore feelings, make attempts to deal with feelings, attempts to rid themselves of a specific feeling or attempts to supplant a feeling with a more pleasing emotion, trouble follows. Sequential feeling reaction to feeling reaction can potentiate to high intensity developing into an emotion storm. In such states intellect is overpowered and alternatives are not thought of. Thought and feeling no longer share guidance of decisions. Among the array of troubles during potentiated emotions and emotion storms are: PTSD, spousal mayhem and murder, barroom fights, and suicide.
The military could reduce these and the several other untoward possibilities by educating all soldiers about the true nature of emotions and its proper use. There would be far less trouble and all soldiers would have a better personal and interpersonal life.
The information to accomplish this is available free on Dr. Isaacs web site.
Sidney Press, Kenneth Isaacs, http://www.drkennethisaacs.com/, +1 650-315-2510, [email protected]
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