Growing with pleasant and unpleasant feelings

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The main content focuses on developing a concept and model for understanding healthy development processes and diagnosing and treating developmental disorders. It emphasizes the role of emotions as a bridge connecting the environment, body, mind, and experience, highlighting the functions of pleasant and unpleasant feelings. The work accepts the oscillating dynamics between these feelings as a principle that promotes development in ambiguous situations. It analyzes affect patterns—both supportive and destructive—related to attachment figures, social, cultural, and religious institutions. By examining these patterns, it challenges the distinctions between normal and abnormal, healthy and sick, revealing psychosocially impaired individuals who may disrupt the development of others under the guise of normality. The analysis includes various personality disorders, such as hysterical, paranoid, borderline, and sociopathic types. It considers both behavior patterns and emotional dynamics, offering realistic, practice-oriented procedures like tests and questionnaires to assess disturbances in affect patterns. Additionally, the work acknowledges the influence of the subconscious, aiming to recognize past emotional experiences and find solutions for affect inhibitions that lead to developmental disorders.