APA Division 49 Article - Bonding the Binaries of Emotional Narratives

This article aims to challenge the concept of individualism and promote a more fluid, collectivistic, and systems-centered view of the self, encouraging compassion, curiosity, and acceptance of emotions. The author discusses the limitations of binary thinking and the need to shift from labeling emotions as "good" or "bad" to understanding their interconnectedness and meaning. The article emphasizes the importance of embracing emotions as meaningful and interconnected with the larger social and global contexts. Through a personal anecdote, the author urges readers to treat their emotions with compassion and curiosity like that of an inner child, recognizing what messages we send or reinforce through our actions. It ends with a desire to shift the paradigm in group therapy towards one that values interconnectedness and intersubjective truths over individualism and binary views of emotions.

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