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Tomkins, Silvan Solomon was born on June 4, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Solomon and Rose (Novack) Tomkins.
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Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing Company in four volumes over 30 years. When Tomkins began writing the book in the 1950's, American psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories - neither of which placed much importance on the role of basic emotions in everyday human behavior. Tomkins challenged the status quo by developing - over the span of nearly 2,000 pages -- a theory of consciousness and motivation that placed emotion at the core of the human experience. Because so few psychologists were studying emotion at that time, Tomkins drew liberally from other academic disciplines to help formulate his ideas and support his arguments: evolutionary biology, ethology, cybernetics, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neurophysiology, among others. In the process, Tomkins practically invented the field of "nonverbal behavior" through close observation of emotional expressions in people, including his own infant son. His work was a brilliantly eccentric pastiche of ideas that adhered to no strict disciplinary or ideological boundaries. In time, however, AIC came to prominence through the research of his disciples, notably Paul Ekman and Carroll Izzard, who went on to become major researchers in the psychology of emotion. Today, Tomkins's book is influential not just in psychology but in philosophy, sociology, communication studies, even in "affective computing." Springer Publishing Company is pleased to continue to offer this magisterial work in four volumes.
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The Thematic Apperception Test. Silvan S. Tomkins. Copyright 1947, Grune & Stratton, NY. Hardcover in very good condition. Binding is secure, cover and spine are clean with minimal wear. NO writing or highlighting was observerd in text. NO dust jacket. Shelved in Medicine. The Bookman serving Colorado Springs since 1990.
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( Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, w...)
Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing Company in four volumes over 30 years. When Tomkins began writing the book in the 1950's, American psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories - neither of which placed much importance on the role of basic emotions in everyday human behavior. Tomkins challenged the status quo by developing - over the span of nearly 2,000 pages -- a theory of consciousness and motivation that placed emotion at the core of the human experience. Because so few psychologists were studying emotion at that time, Tomkins drew liberally from other academic disciplines to help formulate his ideas and support his arguments: evolutionary biology, ethology, cybernetics, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neurophysiology, among others. In the process, Tomkins practically invented the field of "nonverbal behavior" through close observation of emotional expressions in people, including his own infant son. His work was a brilliantly eccentric pastiche of ideas that adhered to no strict disciplinary or ideological boundaries. In time, however, AIC came to prominence through the research of his disciples, notably Paul Ekman and Carroll Izzard, who went on to become major researchers in the psychology of emotion. Today, Tomkins's book is influential not just in psychology but in philosophy, sociology, communication studies, even in "affective computing." Springer Publishing Company is pleased to continue to offer this magisterial work in four volumes.
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(Silvan S. Tomkins was indeed one of history's most origin...)
Silvan S. Tomkins was indeed one of history's most original psychologists, a tireless scientist who contributed much to that discipline. "Affect Imagery Consciousness" was his life's work and consumed him from the mid 1950s through the end of his life in 1991. With this book, he took on an enormous task; he sought to explore emotions, or affects, why we had them, why we paid attention to them, and how they motivated us to respond to situations in our daily lives.Tomkins believed that "all life is 'affective life,' all behavior, thought, planning, wishing, doing...there is no moment when we are free from affect, no situation in which affect is unimportant." He identified nine innate affects that humans possess, and from these, discovered a set of four highly specific behavioral requirements known as "The Tomkins Blueprint for Individual Mental Health", which states: as humans, we are motivated to savor and maximize positive affect. We enjoy what feels good and do what we can to find and maintain more of it; we are inherently biased to minimize negative affect; the system works best when we express all of our affects; and, anything that increases our power to accomplish these goals is good for mental health, anything that reduces this power is bad for mental health.These nine affects and this blueprint serve as a foundation for much of Tomkins' research and theories discussed in the volumes of "Affect Imagery Consciousness".
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"...brilliant..."--Malcolm Gladwell, Author of Blink "The writings for which this essay is offered as a Prologue consumed him from the mid-1950s through the end of his life in 1991. Knowing it was his “lifework,” Tomkins conflated “life” and “work,” reifying the superstition that its completion would equal death and refusing to release for publication long-completed material. He knew the risks associated with this obsessive, neurotic behavior, and the results were as bad as predicted. The first two volumes of Affect Imagery Consciousness (AIC) were released in 1962 and 1963, Volume III in 1991 shortly before he succumbed to a particularly virulent strain of small cell lymphoma, and Volume IV a year after his death. This last book contains Tomkins’s understanding of neocortical cognition, ideas that are even now exciting, but until this current publication of his work as a single supervolume, almost nobody has read it. The bulk of his audience had died along with the enthusiasm generated by his ideas. Big science is now more a matter of big machines and unifocal discoveries as the basis for pars pro toto reasoning than big ideas based on the assembly and analysis of all that is known. Tomkins ignored nothing from any science past or present that might lead him toward a more certain understanding of the mind. Every idea, every theory deserved attention if only because significant observations can loiter in blind alleys."--From the Prologue by Donald L. Nathanson, MD Volume 1 of Springer's magisterial new two-volume edition of Tomkins's magnum opus comprises The Positive Affects and The Negative Affects.
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( Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, w...)
Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing Company in four volumes over 30 years. When Tomkins began writing the book in the 1950's, American psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories - neither of which placed much importance on the role of basic emotions in everyday human behavior. Tomkins challenged the status quo by developing - over the span of nearly 2,000 pages -- a theory of consciousness and motivation that placed emotion at the core of the human experience. Because so few psychologists were studying emotion at that time, Tomkins drew liberally from other academic disciplines to help formulate his ideas and support his arguments: evolutionary biology, ethology, cybernetics, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neurophysiology, among others. In the process, Tomkins practically invented the field of "nonverbal behavior" through close observation of emotional expressions in people, including his own infant son. His work was a brilliantly eccentric pastiche of ideas that adhered to no strict disciplinary or ideological boundaries. In time, however, AIC came to prominence through the research of his disciples, notably Paul Ekman and Carroll Izzard, who went on to become major researchers in the psychology of emotion. Today, Tomkins's book is influential not just in psychology but in philosophy, sociology, communication studies, even in "affective computing." Springer Publishing Company is pleased to continue to offer this magisterial work in four volumes.
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( Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, w...)
Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing Company in four volumes over 30 years. When Tomkins began writing the book in the 1950's, American psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories - neither of which placed much importance on the role of basic emotions in everyday human behavior. Tomkins challenged the status quo by developing - over the span of nearly 2,000 pages -- a theory of consciousness and motivation that placed emotion at the core of the human experience. Because so few psychologists were studying emotion at that time, Tomkins drew liberally from other academic disciplines to help formulate his ideas and support his arguments: evolutionary biology, ethology, cybernetics, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neurophysiology, among others. In the process, Tomkins practically invented the field of "nonverbal behavior" through close observation of emotional expressions in people, including his own infant son. His work was a brilliantly eccentric pastiche of ideas that adhered to no strict disciplinary or ideological boundaries. In time, however, AIC came to prominence through the research of his disciples, notably Paul Ekman and Carroll Izzard, who went on to become major researchers in the psychology of emotion. Today, Tomkins's book is influential not just in psychology but in philosophy, sociology, communication studies, even in "affective computing." Springer Publishing Company is pleased to continue to offer this magisterial work in four volumes.
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Tomkins, Silvan Solomon was born on June 4, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel Solomon and Rose (Novack) Tomkins.
Bachelor, University of Pennsylvania, 1930; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1931; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1934.
Research assistant, Harvard Psychological Clinic, 1936-1943;
instructor psychology, Harvard University, 1943-1946;
lecturer social relations, Harvard University, 1946-1947;
research associate, College Board, 1947-1948;
associate professor psychology, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1947-1955;
professor, Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1955-1964;
research professor, CUNY, 1964-1969;
director, Center Study Cognition and Affect, 1964-1968;
professor Livingston College, Rutgers University, 1968-1976;
professor emeritus, Rutgers University, 1976-1991. With the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1960-1961. Clinical psychologist.
Industrial consultant.
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( Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, w...)
( Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, w...)
( Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, w...)
( Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, w...)
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Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association.
Married Elizabeth J. Taylor, February 8, 1946. 1 child, Mark Wallace.