Janis - I didn't know there was a huge debate on this. thank for
responding.

Lucia

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Janis Callen Bell wrote:

> At 03:31 AM 2/2/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
> This whole issue of whether fear or anger is primary is a huge debate in the
> psychological /medical field.  I was just reading an essay by Norman Shealy
> last night in which he identified fear as the primary emotion and the cause
> of all illness.  So.... I don't think I'll solve this problem here :-)
>
> The issue, in respect to Ellie's work, seems rather to be whether neuronal
> toxicosis in the brain can arise from any of these repressed emotions
> associated with the flight or fight response, and hence can also be
> detoxified appropriately through emotional release and re-establishing
> healthy patterns of response.