Affective-Narrowed Consciousness

Affectively narrowed consciousness is a state when a person loses the ability to objectively perceive the world around him and its problems. He becomes extremely dependent on emotions and experiences, which prevent him from making rational decisions and understanding the real situation. As a result of this condition, people may lose the ability to interact effectively with

Consciousness Affective - Narrowed

**Afferent-constricted consciousness** is a term from psychiatry that means not only reflex passivity as such, but also the presence of reflex inertia. In this condition, functional disorders occur in a state of contact with the external environment, a decrease in the ability to perform purposeful actions and significant mental exhaustion. From clinical practice. In psychology, an affective narrowing of consciousness is usually understood as a state of lethargy and lethargy of the patient. Experts will immediately notice that such a phenomenon is expressed directly opposite to affective narrowing. That is, we are talking about a sudden decrease in energy, an increase in the patient’s exhaustion, when he is indifferent not only to current events, but even to his own feelings.

**Consciousness affected, narrowed**

The already classic concept of **"affective narrowing"** - narrowing of consciousness under the influence of emotions - is proposed to describe a special phenomenon that differs from emotional differentiation as such and manifests itself not only in difficulties in perceiving information in the process of communication, but also in changes in temporal perception and threat perception. It was proposed by Todd Hertzberg in an article that was published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition. In this article, Herzberg describes the concept of “affective narrowing” as a special phenomenon in social cognition that often occurs in people during interactions with each other, especially after severe stress and during life-threatening situations. Thus, “affective n”arkedng” can be considered a special case of a more general process of change in cognitive abilities. This process of change in cognitive ability may be associated with an increase in cognitive deficits (for example, deterioration of attention) on the one hand, or with a decrease in cognitive potential (with a narrowing of the pace of thinking, a decrease in mental acuity and a decrease in speech activity) on the other.

In addition, Herzberg's article views the affected horizon as a particularly complex and emotionally charged stage in our way of perceiving the world, when one event at a time is directly experienced by us. Affected narrowed horizons limit the perception of reality in the same way as it can limit the perception of it in sleep (that is, without “perceptual units” due to altered physiological states such as “REM sleep”). Thus, we