Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Emotion In Medicine

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
The Philosophy and Practice of Medicine and Bioethics

Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine ((LIME,volume 47))

  • 1304 Accesses

Abstract

On the Cognitive Theory of Emotion an emotion is a cognition (assessment or evaluation), which causes bodily feeling. Emotion can be changed by changing the cognition. Negative emotions such as anger, revenge are due to faulty assessments such as failure to accept reality, failure to understand that we can only do that, which is within our power and a misuse of value terms. Emotion is not at all the sort of mentalistic thing that can be “released.” It is on the basis of the cognitive theory of emotion that we may regard negative emotions as philosophy of language fallacies. Assessments are enculturated and so are emotions and in need of an ethical critique, especially in the area of medicine, for healthcare-workers as well as their patients.

The dominant view in contemporary analysis of emotion is a cognitivist one. [1]

The real moral question is what kind of a self is being furthered and formed. [2]

All illnesses can be considered to involve the psychosomatic.

† Deceased

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Marks, J. Ed. 1986. The ways of desire, 3. Chicago: Precedent.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Dewey, J., and Tufts, J. 1932. Ethics, 327. New York: Holt.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Gallo, L. 2004. Negative emotions and health. In Encyclopedia of health and behavior, ed. Anderson, N., 2 vols, 300–306. Thousand Lakes, CA I: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Sotile, W., and Sotile, M. 1996. The angry physician-part 1. The temper-tantruming physician. Physician exec 8 (Aug 22, 1996):30–34.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Buetow, S., and Elwyn, G. 2006. Are patients morally responsible for their errors? Journal of Medical Ethics 32:260–262, esp. 262.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Bedford, E. 1964. Emotions. In Essays in philosophical psychology, ed. Gustafson, D., 77–98. New York, Doubleday: Garden City.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Perkins, M. 1966. Emotion and feelings. Philosophical Quaterly 75:139–160.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Kövecses, Z. 1990. Emotion concepts, 68. New York: Springer. For a review of Kövecses book on emotion see Shibles, W. 1992. Book notice. Zoltan Kövecses emotion concepts. Studies in Language 16:255–261.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Ellis, A. 1994. Reason and emotion in psychotherapy. New York: Carol Publishing Group.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Melden, A. 1969. The conceptual dimension of emotions. In Human action, ed. Mischel, T., 205 and 216. New York: Academic Press.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Roseman, I., and Smith, C. 2001. Appraisal theory. In Appraisal processes in emotion: Theory, methods, research. eds. Scherer, K., Schorr, A., and Johnstone, T., 3–19, esp. 4. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Scherer, K., Schorr, A., and Johnstone, T. eds. Appraisal processes in emotion: Theory, methods, research, 389–390. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Shibles, W. 1974. Emotion: The method of Philosophical therapy. Whitewater, WI: Language Press; Shibles, W. 1995. The cognitive-emotive theory of desire. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research 11:25–40; Shibles, W. 1995. Emotion in aesthetics. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Kappas, A. 2001. A metaphor is … a metaphor is a metaphor. In Appraisal processes in emotion: Theory, methods, research eds. Scherer, K., Schorr, A., and Johnstone, T., 157–172, esp.158. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Wittgenstein, L. 1958. Philosophical investigations, 3rd edn, 363. New York: Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Ryle, G. 1949. The concept of mind, 40. London: Hutchinson.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Quine, W. 1966. The ways of paradox and other essays, 208–214, esp. 213–214. New York: Random House. On mental states.

    Google Scholar 

  18. Mead, G.H. 1977. On social psychology, 100. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  19. Mead, G.H. 1977. On social psychology, 89. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Brody, H. 1980. Placebos and the Philosophy of Medicine, 3. Chicago: University of Chicago.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Damasio, A.R. 1994. Descartes’ error: Emotion, reason and the human brain. New York: GP Putnam’s Sons.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Smith, C., and Kirby, L. 2004. Appraisal as a pervasive determinant of anger. Emotion 4:133–138.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  23. Shibles, W. 1995. Emotion in aesthetics, 82–118. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  24. Smith, C., and Kirby, L. 2004. Appraisal as a pervasive determinant of anger. Emotion 4:134.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  25. Smith, C., and Kirby, L. 2004. Appraisal as a pervasive determinant of anger. Emotion 4:135.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  26. Griffiths, P. 2004. Emotions as natural and normative kinds. Philosophy of Science 71:901–911, esp. 902.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  27. Dewey, J. 1929/1958. Experience and nature, 42. New York: Dover.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  28. Dewey, J. 1939. Theory of valuation, 29. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; cf. Shibles, W. 1995. The cognitive-emotive theory of desire. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research 11:25–40.

    Google Scholar 

  29. Goleman, D. 1994. Emotional intelligence. New York: Bantam.

    Google Scholar 

  30. Zeidner, M. 2001. Slow down, you move too fast: emotional intelligence remains an “elusive intelligence”. Emotion 1:265–275: esp. 266–267.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  31. Zeidner, M. 2001. Slow down, you move too fast: Emotional intelligence remains an “elusive intelligence”. Emotion 1:265–275: esp. 274.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  32. Shibles, W. 1992. Verbal abuse: An analysis. Papiere zur Linguistik 46:30–44. See full analysis of blame in the chapter on Care: A Critique of the Ethics and Emotion of Care.

    Google Scholar 

  33. Marcus, Aurelius 1964 ed/ tr Long, G. Meditations, 88. New York: Doubleday/Penguin.

    Google Scholar 

  34. Gould, J. 1970. The philosophy of Chrysippus, 34. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

    Google Scholar 

  35. Marcus, Aurelius 1964 ed/tr Long, G. Meditations, 80. New York: Doubleday/Penguin.

    Google Scholar 

  36. Marcus, Aurelius 1964 ed/tr Long, G. Meditations, 12. New York: Doubleday/Penguin.

    Google Scholar 

  37. Marcus, Aurelius 1964 ed/tr Long, G. Meditations, 20. New York: Doubleday/Penguin.

    Google Scholar 

  38. Marcus, Aurelius 1964 ed/tr Long, G. Meditations, 56. New York: Doubleday/Penguin.

    Google Scholar 

  39. Marcus, Aurelius 1964 ed/tr Long, G. Meditations, 72. New York: Doubleday/Penguin.

    Google Scholar 

  40. Rist, J. ed. 1978. The stoics, 259–272. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  41. Rist, J. 1969. Stoic philosophy, 25, 31, 37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  42. Rist, J. 1969. Stoic philosophy, 26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  43. Rist, J. 1969. Stoic philosophy, 259. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  44. Rist, J. 1969. Stoic philosophy, 35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  45. Rist, J. 1969. Stoic philosophy, 35–36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  46. Collingwood, R.G. 1938. The principles of art, 267, 296. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  47. Collingwood, R.G. 1938. The principles of art, 276. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  48. Wittgenstein, L. 1958/1953. Philosophical investigations, 3rd edn. New York: Macmillan; Anscombe, E. tr. And revised. 2002. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  49. Marcus, Aurelius 1964 ed/tr Long, G. Meditations, 103. New York: Doubleday/Penguin.

    Google Scholar 

  50. Shibles, W. 1974. Emotion: The method of philosophical therapy. Whitewater, WI: Language Press.

    Google Scholar 

  51. Dr. David Oakley, director of the hypnosis unit at University College London. BBC News 9 August, 2004. news.bbc.co.uk.

    Google Scholar 

  52. Peveler, R. 1996. Psychosocial factors and chronic pelvic pain: a comparison of women with endometriosis and with unexplained pain. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 40:305–315.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  53. Maier, B., Akmanlar-Hirscher, G., Krainz, R., Wenger, A., and Staudach, A. 1999. Der chronische Unterbauchschmerz – ein immer noch zu wenig verstandenes Krankheitsbild. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 149:377–382.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  54. Hampton, T. 2006. A world of pain: Scientists explore factors controlling pain perception. JAMA 296:2425–2427.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  55. Schechter, D., and Smith, A. 2005. Back pain as a distraction pain syndrome: A window to a whole new dynamic in integrative medicine. Current Opinion: Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine 2:3–8.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  56. Hyman, M., and Liponis, M. 2003. Ultraprevention, 326. New York: Scribner.

    Google Scholar 

  57. Siemer, M. 2005. Mood-congruent cognitions constitute mood experience. Emotion 5:296–308; esp. 305–306.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  58. Dewey, J. 1958. Experience and nature, 251. New York: Dover.

    Google Scholar 

  59. Mew, P. 1985. The musical arousal of emotions. BJA 25:357–361; esp. 360.

    Google Scholar 

  60. Bosanquet, B. 1894. On the nature of aesthetic emotion. Mind 3:153–166; esp.160.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  61. Collingwood, R.G. 1938. The principles of art, 112–113. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  62. Groom, C., and Pennebaker, J. 2004. Expressive writing and health. In Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior, ed. Anderson, N., vol I: 326. Thousand Lakes, CA: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  63. Berkowitz, L., and Harmon-Jones, E. 2004. Toward an understanding of the determinants of anger. Emotion 4:107–130; esp. 108–109.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  64. Clore, G., and Cenerbar, D. 2004. Analyzing anger: How to make people mad. Emotion 4:139–144.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  65. Kuppens, P. 2003. The appraisal basis of anger: Specificity, necessity, and sufficiency of components. Emotion 3:254–269; esp. 266.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  66. cf. Brinton, A. 1988. Appeal to the angry emotions. Informal Logic 10:77–87.

    Google Scholar 

  67. Hauck, P. 1974. Overcoming frustration and anger, 31. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press.

    Google Scholar 

  68. Kurzweil, R., and Grossman, T. 2004. Fantastic voyage: Live long enough to live forever, 282–283. New York: Plume (Rodale orig.).

    Google Scholar 

  69. Tugado, M., and Fredricksen, B. 2004. Emotions: positive emotions and health. Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior. In American psychological association, ed. Anderson, N., vol. I: 307. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  70. Kurzweil, R., and Grossman, T. 2004. Fantastic voyage: Live long enough to live forever, 76. New York: Plume (Rodale orig).

    Google Scholar 

  71. Suarez, E. 2002. Psychological risk factors of cardiovascular disease in apparently healthy adults. In Risk. eds. Ropeik, D., and Gray, G., 349 ff. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

    Google Scholar 

  72. Ellis, A. 1977. How to live with and without anger. New York: Crowell.

    Google Scholar 

  73. Herrald, M., and Tomaka, J. 2002. Patterns of emotion-specific appraisal, coping, and cardiovascular reactivity during an ongoing emotional episode. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83:434–450.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  74. cf. Shibles, W. 1987. Reformatory blame. Journal of Rational-Emotive Therapy 5:266–281; Shibles, W. 1992. Verbal abuse: An analysis. Papiere zur Linguistik 46:30–44.

    Google Scholar 

  75. Averill, J., Catlin, G., and Chon, K. eds. 1990. Rules of hope, 63. New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  76. Snyder, C.R. ed.. 2000. Handbook of hope: Theory, measures, and applications. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

    Google Scholar 

  77. Averill, J., Catlin, G., and Chon, K. eds. 1990. Rules of hope, 104. New York: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  78. Hyman, M., and Liponis, M. 2003. Ultraprevention, 188. New York: Scribner.

    Google Scholar 

  79. Kurzweil, R., and Grossman, T. 2004. Fantastic voyage: Live long enough to live forever, 259. New York: Plume (Rodale orig).

    Google Scholar 

  80. Damasio, A. 2000. Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions. Neuroscience 3:1049–1056, esp.1051.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  81. Damasio, A. 2000. Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions. Neuroscience 3:1049–1056, esp.1053 Source supplied.

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  82. Sirois, B., and Burg, M. 2003. Negative emotion and coronary heart disease: A review. Behavior Modification 27:83–102; esp.84.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  83. Sirois, B., and Burg, M. 2003. Negative emotion and coronary heart disease: A review. Behavior Modification 27:83–102; esp. 86.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  84. Sirois, B., and Burg, M. 2003. Negative emotion and coronary heart disease: A review. Behavior Modification 27:83–102; esp.97; cf. Shibles, W. 1994. "Anxiety: A Pseudo-Concept" International Journal of Applied Philosophy 9:43–52.

    Google Scholar 

  85. Sirois, B., and Burg, M. 2003. Negative emotion and coronary heart disease: A review. Behavior Modification 27:83–102; esp. 89.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  86. ee psycweb.com. For DSM go to psychiatryonline.com/resourceTOC.

    Google Scholar 

  87. See Shibles, W. 1974. Emotion: The method of philosophical therapy. Whitewater, WI: Language Press, for a critique of the earlier DSM III.

    Google Scholar 

  88. Wallace, E., Radden, J., and Sadler, J. 1997. The philosophy of psychiatry: Who needs it? Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders 185:67–73.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  89. Basco, M. 2000. Methods to improve diagnostic accuracy in a community health setting. American Journal of Psychiatry 157:1599–1605.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  90. Reed, G. 2006. Clinical experience. In Evidence-based practice in medical health: Debate and dialogue on the fundamental questions. eds. Norcross, J., Beutler, L., and Levant, R., 13–23; esp.21 Washington DC: American Psychological association.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  91. Frances, A. 1994. DSM-IV meets philosophy. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 19:207–218 esp. 207–208.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  92. Frances, A. 1994. DSM-IV meets philosophy. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 19:207–218 esp. 212.

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  93. The American Law Institute. 1948. Restatement, Second of Torts, Section 46.

    Google Scholar 

  94. Coburn, K. 2000. The trend in claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress. Medical Trial Technique Quaterly 46:233–261; esp. 235.

    Google Scholar 

  95. Coburn, K. 2000. The trend in claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress. Medical Trial Technique Quaterly 46:233–261; esp. 238.

    Google Scholar 

  96. Coburn, K. 2000. The trend in claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress. Medical Trial Technique Quaterly 46:233–261; esp. 242.

    Google Scholar 

  97. Coburn, K. 2000. The trend in claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress. Medical Trial Technique Quaterly 46:233–261; esp. 247.

    Google Scholar 

  98. Coburn, K. 2000. The trend in claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress. Medical Trial Technique Quaterly 46:233–261; esp. 255.

    Google Scholar 

  99. Coburn, K. 2000. The trend in claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress. Medical Trial Technique Quaterly 46:233–261; esp. 254.

    Google Scholar 

  100. cf. Wilkinson, J. 2000. Is “normal grief” a mental disorder? Philosophical Quaterly 50:289–304.

    Google Scholar 

  101. Silvia, P. 2005. What is interesting? Exploiting the appraisal structure of interest. Emotion 5:89–102.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Paracelsus Medical University SALK, Müllner Hauptstrasse 48, 5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Dr. Barbara Maier

  2. University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, 53190, Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA

    Prof. Warren A. Shibles†

Authors
  1. Dr. Barbara Maier
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Prof. Warren A. Shibles†
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Barbara Maier .

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Maier, B., Shibles†, W.A. (2011). Emotion In Medicine. In: The Philosophy and Practice of Medicine and Bioethics. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8867-3_7

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8867-3_7

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht

  • Print ISBN: 978-90-481-8866-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-90-481-8867-3

  • eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation