Generalised Emotion How it may be produced, and Sentic Cycle Therapy

Abstract

concerned with a novel, yet natural way of producing emotions using dynamic expression and touch as a mode for the precise expression of emotions, and as a special, new art form emotion as an entity / what produces an emotion / cognitive output function effects of emotion generalised emotion: its production through repeated touch expression / essentic form measurement experimentation with essentic form / isolation of specific essentic forms / correspondence between production and recognition of essentic form transforming touch expression to sound expression / sound expression transformed from white urban touch tested on Central Australian Aboriginals / application to emotional expression of musical themes / the amygdala as a processor of essentic form sentic cycles / initial discovery of their function / design and composition of the cycle / physical setup for executing sentic cycles / finger rest / rating and diary / art form of touch functions of the sentic cycle / results of sentic cycle ratings and observations / cognitive aspects of generalised emotion / longterm effects of sentic cycles and therapeutic applications / generalised emotion in a social context (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). (chapter)