Emotional avoidance, self-coherence, and psychosis: Why affective regulation is a form of relational care
Conventional wisdom holds that avoiding your emotions cuts you off from important data about yourself, but did you know that habitually flinching from feeling can also lead to severe distortions of social cognition, conceptual coherence, and reality testing? In this post, I explore this idea and draw out some of the relational implications of the intimate connection between thinking, self-coherence, and affect.