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Affective Neuroscience: Jaak Panksepp's ‘rat tickling theory of emotion’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2024

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John Hook*
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Consultant medical psychotherapist in private practice (in Dawlish, UK) since 1986, having worked in the National Health Service for over 20 years. His current interests include sexual boundary violations by professionals, affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis. He provides risk assessments for professional hearings and assists victims of sexual and other boundary violations in psychotherapy in making complaints about their previous therapists. He has written several articles on these subjects.
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Summary

This article reviews the seminal work of Jaak Panksepp: Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions. It outlines the basis of his theory of Basic Emotional Command Systems as common to all mammals and goes on to specify some of the key fields that have grown out of his research.

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Pankseppaffective neuroscienceneuropsychoanalysisbasic emotional command systemconsciousness
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Memory Lane
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BJPsych Advances , First View , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Royal College of Psychiatrists.

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