{"id":5010,"date":"2016-01-30T12:28:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T11:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=5010"},"modified":"2016-01-30T12:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T11:35:46","slug":"5010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=5010","title":{"rendered":"Positive emotions, spirituality and the practice of psychiatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-a-sagUTS9zY\/VqydtNeSYAI\/AAAAAAAAZMg\/HWVDHLrIdGQ\/s0\/photoFXlab_2016-01-30_12-25-37.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> <em><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\" >There are some points made in this below article that are not supported by our vaisnava siddhanta, so it is just as well that that was not the reason for us posting it!<\/p>\n<p>Rather, our purpose was to show, not only division among the scientific \/ psychiatric world, but to show the strong challenge there is to the outright atheistic view as represented by the likes of Hawkins, Freud and Dawkins etc. It would have been truly remarkable if all points made in this article were in line with our siddhanta. So we request readers to focus on the positive in this piece, seeing the glass as half full as opposed to half empty.<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"rantrom\" name=\"rantrm\" width=\"100%\" height=\"14900px\" align=\"center\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tmpy4lp3tog1w.htm\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-8WNHutvKz9s\/VqyeBVc233I\/AAAAAAAAZMo\/__VvBErPdbk\/s0\/firefox_2016-01-30_12-27-01.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By Vaillant George<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This paper proposes that eight positive emotions: awe, love (attachment), trust (faith), compassion, gratitude, forgiveness, joy and hope constitute what we mean by spirituality. These emotions have been grossly ignored by psychiatry. The two sciences that I shall employ to demonstrate this definition of spirituality will be ethology and neuroscience. They are both very new. I will argue that spirituality is not about ideas, sacred texts and theology; rather, spirituality is all about emotion and social connection. Specific religions, for all their limitations, are often the portal through which positive emotions are brought into conscious attention. Neither Freud nor psychiatric textbooks ever mention emotions like joy and gratitude. Hymns and psalms give these emotions pride of place. Our whole concept of psychotherapy might change if clinicians set about enhancing positive emotions rather than focusing only on negative emotions.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23959,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions\/23959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}