Category Archives: CARING

Caring

SEEKING (expectancy) RAGE (anger) FEAR (anxiety) LUST (sexual excitement) CARE (nurturance) PANIC/GRIEF (sadness) PLAY (social joy) CARing We can counter virtually all mass violence with CARing. That sounds so easy. But it means warm and loving care from birth on. That does not seem so hard. But … Continue reading

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CARING with Oxytocin

Jaak Panksepp coined the term affective neuroscience or the neuroscience of emotions. Culminating a lifetime of animal lab research, he identified seven primary-process emotions built into the brain by evolution, hardwired into the subcortical networks of all mammalian brains:

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CARING

Of the seven primary-affect systems, perhaps CARING is the least studied. Or maybe better put, the CARE system has been mainly studied in terms of pregnancy and motherhood.

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