[Evolution, emotion, language and conscience in the postrationalist psychotherapy].
A complex system process oriented approach, in other words a constructivistic postrationalist cognitive one to psychology and to psychopathology, stresses the close interdependency among processes as evolution, emotion, language and conscience. During evolution, emotions, whose biological roots we share with superior primates, should be specialized and refined. Along this process should become necessary a more and more abstract way of scaffolding the enormous quantity of data a brain could manage. Cognitive abilities, rooted in the emotional quality of experience, allow - during the phylogenetic development - more and more complex patterns of reflexivity until to the necessary ability of recognizing other's intention and consequently of lying. Language, abstract ability usefull to give increasing experiential data scaffolding, probably coming from motor skills development, brings at the same time the possibility, for a human knowing system, of self-consciousness: to do this it's owed to detach from itself, that is experience a deep sense of loneliness. Here it is that the progressive cognitive skills development is linked to the possibility of lying and of self-deception as long as the acquiring of advanced levels of selfconsciousness.
Dipartimento Scienze e Biotecnologie Medico Chirurgiche, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy. depascale@uniroma1.it
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D005075:Biological Evolution; D003242:Conscience; D003243:Consciousness; D008192:Deception; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods