Week 3--Barker Chapter 5--Evolution, Biology and Culture

Psychotherapy uses rethinking and cognitive evaluation of raw emotions in order to get the jump on and have mastery over some of these instinctive feelings that are evolutionary throwbacks. But does this mean that our emotional foundation should be completely uprooted? Should we expect, as part of our evolutionary progress, to increasingly displace our mainly emotional existence with a mainly rational one? Is there a place for a moderate and healthy, emotional existence that’s held in check by reason? Is there a place for emotions like fear (important for avoiding harm), hate (important for coming against things which are determined to be wrong or destructive on a major scale), or even love (important for putting us holistically in line with the things we admire most about existence)? Or are all of these emotions on their way out? Are we becoming the Borg!?