Explain How Emotions Can Hijack Our Brain During Times of Change

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Essay

Explain how emotions can hijack our brain during times of change.

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Definitions:

Childhood Conflicts

Childhood conflicts involve disputes, disagreements, or struggles that occur between individuals during their early years, impacting their development and relationships.

Animus

In Jung’s version of psychoanalysis, the idea of the typical male as held in the mind of a female.

Neo-Freudians

Psychologists who were influenced by, but later diverged from, Freud's theories, incorporating social and cultural factors into the understanding of personality.

Conscious Processes

Mental activities of which an individual is fully aware, involving such aspects as perception, thinking, feeling, and decision making.