Viewing emotion as an outcome of neural integration enables us to consider the wide impact of emotion on the functioning of a person. It also enables us to see how emotional dysfunction may occur when the normally integrating processes of the brain that enable balanced functioning have been impaired. Dis-integration is the result. On the interpersonal level, we come to feel emotionally connected when our minds become integrated with each other. These linkages of one mind to the other occur when the subjective, internal state of one person is respected and responded to by the other. We feel
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