Knowing how to decode these stories is the key to a truly accurate view of the human emotion-processing mind and emotional life. In the early 1970's. The approach gives full credence to the unconscious side of emotional life and has rendered it highly sensible and incontrovertible by discovering a new, validated, and deeply meaningful way of decoding unconscious messages. The CA has exposed and offered correctives for much of what's wrong with our current picture of the emotional mind and today's psychotherapies-critical errors in thinking and practice that have cause untold suffering throughout the world. Instead, emotional disturbances arise primarily from failed efforts at coping with current emotionally-charged traumas.
Emotional problems arise from our inner conflicts, especially distorting memories and fantasies.
This failure to cope is secondarily affected by a person's past life history and current inner mental life. The central problem in emotional life involves resolving past conflicts that have become inner-mental conflicts in the present. The key problem in emotional life involves coping with a contemporaneous emotional trauma and its ramifications. Unconscious messages are conveyed in every conceivable way, in everything we do and say. It is to be formulated in terms of patterns of behavior and unrealized memories and fantasies.