Affect Consciousness and Self The View from the Bottom of the Mind | Mental Health

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This book argues that mental life is organized by and around affect. It proposes a clinical model for understanding how affect influences states of consciousness and self. It illustrates how from moment to moment affect determines the world we know how we are disposed to being in it and our capacity to function in it. After introducing consciousness and self as features of mind that have posed daunting problems for philosophy neurology and psychoanalysis subsequent chapters propose a model for understanding them at the clinical level. Initial chapters are devoted to the influence of affect on the structure and dynamics of normal waking consciousness and on the self’s capacity to act agentic…