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"Distress-Anguish Dynamics: The Adult Consequences of the Socialization of Crying"

Mon, Mar 24

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Zoom link and readings will be sent

Monthly Reading Group March 2025

Time & Location

Mar 24, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

Zoom link and readings will be sent

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About the event

In March we will be discussing:


Tomkins, S. "Distress-Anguish Dynamics: The Adult Consequences of the Socialization of Crying" (Vol. 2, Chapter 15: pp. 313-350).


Bois, J.S. (1996). "Chapter 9 - Stages of Cultural Development: an Epistemological Profile", in The Art of Awareness (4th or 5th

edition). Santa Monica: Continuum, pp. 170-199.


Readings include not only the work of Tomkins (specifically, we are reading through the volumes of his

magnus opus Affect, Imagery, Consciousness) but of other researchers related to Affect Script theory. These


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