Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Schizophrenia

Split between thinking and feeling.
This is what is known as schizophrenia. Although, see back to DSM IV post...
According to this definition, it seems certain that everybody has a mild case of it. Who out there really experiences their emotions and their thoughts as a perfect harmony...?
Few people act according to abstract ethical philosophies, because we do not usually have a deeply emotional response to intellectual realisations during our pursuits of abstract moral theories. And we often do not form our theories on the basis of what we feel.

The idea that thoughts and emotions could be mutually informative of the other can only be true up to a point...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

again...there is a continuum of schizophrenia-type disorders including schizotypy, schizoaffective disorder, shcizotypal personality disorder...perhaps look into these before making such general comments