On the wall behind him is a map of the world whose details we cannot read: the true map that Rembrandt paints is spiritual, emotional, written on the dark side of the eye.
There is the private, emotional writing and there is the public, representational writing.
Other warnings of unreliable content are the use of slang, obscenities or other emotional writing and a disaster of a design: ugly fonts, disorganized links, crazy colors.
There's nothing to suggest that using poems as suicide notes is a new phenomenon, but these have all come to light in the last few months and the combination of tragedy and emotional writing has captured the public imagination.
Similarly, alexithymia is associated with worse outcomes on emotional-based interventions such as emotional writing (Lumley, 2004; O'Connor & Ashley, 2008).
Omega-3 supplementation of cod liver oil during pregnancy has effects on children's cognitive development at least through age 4. Emotional writing reduces or prevents medication use, healthcare visits, or continued unemployments months later (Richards et al. 2000; Smyth et al. 1999; Spera et al. 1994).
"Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma," writes Alain de Botton in his book, "Status Anxiety," efficiently summing up Draper and Grey in one blow.
It's been an emotional ride, writes Susie Lau.
"It was remarkably moving and emotional," Ms. Quinn wrote.
"It's an emotional thing writing a novel.
