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Emotional flooding is a form of psychotherapy that involves attacking the unconscious and/or subconscious mind to release repressed feelings and fears. Many of the techniques used in modern emotional flooding practice have roots in history, some tracing as far back as early tribal societies. For more information on emotional flooding, see Flooding (psychology). ==Tribal Societies== In the early stages of human existence, people lived in tribes made up of family groups. The tribes often had a shaman, or medicine man, whose primary responsibilities included: diagnosing illnesses and prescribing herbs or other treatments to cure the afflicted of their ailments.〔Sem, Tatyana. "Shemanic Healing Rituals."〕 Many ritual cures included wild displays of emotion.〔Olsen, Paul. "Emotional Flooding."〕 In his book, ''The Discovery of the Unconscious'', Henri Ellenberger claims that shamans were primarily practitioners of psychosomatic medicine.〔Ellenberger, Henri. "The Discovery of the Unconscious."〕 These shamans did not consider the possibility of a split between mind and body, unlike the popular beliefs of the Western philosophical movement.〔 Dr. Paul Olsen said, "Implicit in the belief that any sort of illness contains emotional elements is an unverbalized acknowledgment of an unconscious process. It follows that liberation of these elements is a pathway to cure. In essence, the shamans were dealing with a crude but strikingly accurate concept of repression."〔 The link between these primitive methods and modern techniques is the emphasis upon working with the body.〔 Psychologist Ari Kiev said, “(that ) facilitate change by producing excessive cortical excitation, emotional exhaustion, and states of reduced resistance or hypersuggestibility, which in turn increases the patient’s chances of being converted to new points of view (consistent with modern-day modalities of primal therapy and encounter. )”〔Kiev, Ari. "Prescientific Psychiatry."〕 Modern psychological researchers conclude that many tribal afflictions were more likely symptoms of modern-day disorders such as depression or schizophrenia. Similar to the treatments for these disorders practiced today, the treatments shamans practiced often required the patient to recall difficult experiences and to recreate a wide range of emotions.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emotional flooding」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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