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The Transmission of Affect

Author(s) : Teresa Brennan

Book Details

Publisher : Cornell U.P.
Published : 2004
Cover : Paperback
Category :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 92295
ISBN 13 : 9780801488627
ISBN 10 : 0801488621

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The idea that one can "soak up" someone else's mood or sense the tension in a room is familiar - as in "negative energy". This ability to borrow or share states of mind is now pathologized, as the author shows in relation to affective transfer in psychiatric clinics.