Revealing emotions: An ongoing investigation

Abstract

Philosophers and thinkers have been keen on emotions since Antiquity. Its scientific study is related to the origins of the Psychology as an independent discipline and nowadays we are living a genuine emotional revolution as for its understanding. In this piece of work we will try an approach to what we consider as emotions and will present a short review of the neurological substratum that makes them possible together with the functions these complex reactions perform. Emotions are deeply overlapped in our mental life and its disturbances seem to be increasing. It can be due to a bad adjustment between organism and social structure (what is known as genoma lag); nevertheless, most of these alterations could be mitigated by a suitable emotional education coming from a paradigm of healthy life and integral growth of the individual in society, the whole opening the door to a new XXIst century Positive  Psychology, preventive and focused on Public Health.