According to Greenberg's claim, humans have only one motivation. This motivation is survival motivation. The most basic structure that will ensure survival is emotions. Emotions are your life guide and they are genetic. Emotions determine your needs and guide you by paving the way for you. When we look at emotions in this sense, we have 5 basic innate emotions and 2 positive emotions. The purpose of these 5 basic emotions and 2 positive emotions is to keep you alive. Whether we want it or not, one of the basic emotions within you is alert according to biological need. With this triggered emotion, emotion-oriented actions take place. As a result of these actions, experience begins.
FIVE BASIC EMOTIONS
Fear: The most necessary emotion for human survival is fear. It is necessary to be afraid, shy and take precautions against the perception of threat from the outside world. In times of fear and unexpected situations, people become alert. From the moment fearful situations occur, the midbrain region called the amygdala nucleus takes protective measures without affecting the thinking center. The feeling of fear is an important emotion for our survival.
Anger:When someone attacks or tries to invade your personal rights and living space, you are automatically triggered by the feeling of anger to protect yourself. This feeling makes you proud. It supports self-esteem. It ensures that other people stop at certain points and do not infringe on your rights. Your anger has the ability to stop the other. If you didn't have anger inside you, no one else would know the limits.
Sadness: Sadness is the feeling of loss we experience in depression. This feeling provides connection. Attachment, on the other hand, ensures survival, that is, the feeling of loss felt by losing something of your own is the emotion that gives value to the beings and people you are in contact with. Thanks to the feeling of sadness, we experience closeness, compassion and mercy. The feeling of sadness is an emotion that is necessary for us to stay in touch with the beings in our lives and to remain alert in the face of losses.
Shame: It is a feeling that does not exist in animals. is emotion. The only living being socially It is a type of emotion that exists in humans. Human beings have been given a feeling that we call shame; if people act contrary to the expectations of the society, other members of the society socialize them by creating a feeling of shame and embarrassment in them. Therefore, we socialize as a result of the feeling of shame.
Disgust: Disgust is an emotion, a self-protective reflex, given to us by a different pride, that allows us to stay away from unwanted things. . Just as animals eat certain herbs, they are disgusted by others and do not eat them; Just as human beings vomit out when they eat, they also create a protective barrier for themselves by being disgusted and staying away from things that are poisonous, germy and dangerous to health. This situation occurs with the same mechanism against harmful people.
TWO POSITIVE EMOTIONS
Excitement: The basic meaning is enthusiasm for life. It means being filled with lust. It is the life energy that keeps us alive. It contains great excitement. It is the feeling of hunger for life.
Surprised: Although it is known as surprise by our society, it does not fully correspond to surprise in terms of meaning. Surprised; It means astonishment, admiration. It is a positive feeling. It's a strange feeling that happens suddenly. For example, you are surprised if your child does well in the university exam.
There are combinations of seven emotions, five negative and two positive, that Greenberg emphasizes. All psychopathologies of human beings are emotional dysregulation.
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