Emotional Foundations of Personality. A Neurobiological and Evolutionary Approach

Before you is the first book translated into Russian by the world-renowned neuroscientist, the creator of a separate direction in affective neuroscience, Jaak Panksepp. It presents an extensive history of the study of the emotional foundations of personality from Antiquity to the present day, as well as materials on modern scientific developments and research on the central nervous system. Here, you will become acquainted with the basics of Panksepp's theory and the basic emotional drives such as RAGE, FEAR, SEEKING, PANIC / GRIEF, CARE, and PLAY, which occur in every individual, and the frustration of which often underlies various psychopathologies (depression, PTSD, mania, etc.).
At the end of the book, you will find the ANPS questionnaire, created by Panksepp together with co-author and his student Ken Davis. Any reader can complete the questionnaire and calculate scores based on the keys presented here, and its results will help better understand oneself, one's temperament, and character traits.
The book is intended for a professional audience and will be useful for students, graduate students, teachers, and researchers in the fields of psychology and medicine, as well as clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and counseling psychologists.