The Healing Power of Emotion Quotes

“Which end is nearer to God, if I may use religious metaphor, beauty and hope, or the fundamental laws? I think that the right way of course, is to say that what we have to look at is the whole structural interconnection of the thing;”
― Diana Fosha, The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice

“It is now clear that affective values are built into the nervous system as birthrights, but not ethical and moral values, which are epigenetic emergents of developmental landscapes.”
― Diana Fosha, The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice

“Emotions are at the nexus of thought and action, of self and other, of person and environment, of biology and culture. Emotion is a term that evokes many connotations, from the way we “feel” to the ways our lives are integrated across time.”
― Diana Fosha, The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice

“It is hard to imagine how therapy could yield successful outcomes if there were no sense of warmth, attachment, and care between clinician and client. If therapists cannot assume an interpersonal stance in which they resonate”
― Diana Fosha, The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development & Clinical Practice