• Subscribe

    Subscribe to our mailing list

    * indicates required
  • Login
  • My Cart
    Items: 0
    Subtotal: $0.00
    View Cart Check Out
info@tomkins.org

Become a Member

What Tomkins Said

Introduction

A brief summary of the ideas that form the building blocks of Tomkins' theory of human behavior, motivation, and personality

Affects evolved as the system of motivation for human beings

Nine affects, present at birth, combine with life experience to form emotion and personality

The skin and face are the primary sites of affect and motivation

When positive affects are thwarted, shame happens

What we learn through affects becomes programmed as scripts which govern our behavior

Our ideology is shaped by how we learn to respond to affects

Book & Articles

Selected works published by Tomkins and others that explain, explore, and expand his theories.

Archives and Manuscripts

Script Theory Articles

Complete Bibliography

Affect Imagery Consciousness (Vol I-IV)

Exploring Affect: Selected Writings

Affect and Cognition Articles

Personality Articles

Smoking and Addiction Articles

Bio, Quotes & Excerpts

All about Tomkins' background and a selection of sayings and writing.

Favorite Quotes

I am a Neo-Kantian . . . No affect, no meaning

The Ideology of Machismo

Freedom of the Will, Measured by Complexity

Biography and Timeline

What Others Said

Tomkins's contribution considered by those he deeply impacted

Malcom Gladwell’s Description of Tomkins

Paul Ekman on Silvan Tomkins and Facial Expression

Don Nathanson – The Empathic Wall and the Ecology of Affect

Virginia Demos: Perplexing Obscurity

Irving Alexander: Tomkins as Presenter

Don Nathanson: Prologue to Affect Imagery Consciousness

Vernon Kelly: A Primer of Affect Psychology