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Joseph LeDoux

The Science of Psychotherapy

CHAPTER

Are You as a Psychopath, the Home of Fear?

Theory of fear was developed in 1950s when the psychopharmaceutical industry was coming to be. It's not fear that universal it's danger, he says. Every culture has dangers that its constituents are exposed to and so they have language to describe those experiences. So we each have our own personal understanding of fear because we've developed what's called an emotion Schema.

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