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feeling

Conscious subjective experience of emotion

EntityQ205555

Subclass of: perception
, emotional process

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According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, a feeling is "a self-contained phenomenal experience"; feelings are "subjective, evaluative, and independent of the sensations, thoughts, or images evoking them". The term feeling is closely related to, but not the same as, emotion. Feeling may, for instance, refer to the conscious subjective experience of emotions. The study of subjective experiences is called phenomenology. Psychotherapy generally involves a therapist helping a client understand, articulate, and learn to effectively regulate the client's own feelings, and ultimately to take responsibility for the client's experience of the world. Feelings are sometimes held to be characteristic of embodied consciousness.

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Members / parts: somatosensory system
Different from: Feeling criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: feeling
Gefühl criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Gefühl
Sentiment criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: sentiment
Abat criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: abat
Feelings criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: feelings
affect
mood
Cause: emotion
Said to be the same as: sentiment
Has characteristic: subjectivity

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