title: [Boredom--symptom of emotional stunting].
abstract: Contrary to the fundamental importance of emotions for all psychological phenomena and functions, academy psychology in the study of the relationship between emotion and cognition shows a neglect for the phenomena of emotion. Indirectly, apathy shows that losing the potential for experiencing emotions is followed by a loss of reality and self identity. The scientific onesidedness of intellectualism with it's neglect of the reality of feeling supports the public suppression of emotionality. The reality of emotion, put aside in the name of science, show up as an urging problem in depth psychology and psychotherapy. The desolation of emotion: the death of the self in the time, revealed in boredom, manifests the "lost time", the loss of personal history. A main concern of all psychotherapy seems to be a regaining of the time unity of the biographical "Gestalt" of personal identity; in other words the client is led into a learning process that gives him the opportunity to deal effectively with his emotions again.
mesh_terms: D001887:Boredom; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012649:Self Concept; D013998:Time Perception
vernacular_title: Die Langeweile--Symptom emotionaler Verkümmerung.