The Seba library treats Jaak Panksepp in 8 passages, across 5 authors (including Panksepp, Jaak, LeDoux, Joseph, Maté, Gabor).
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions by Jaak Panksepp
This is Panksepp’s own foundational monograph, the primary source text establishing the discipline of affective neuroscience and its account of primary-process emotional systems in mammals.
, Affective Neuroscience The Foundations of Human and Animal, 1998thesis
Jaak Panksepp’s emotion command system hypothesis is a comprehensive and well-developed conception of how an innate affect program might actually work in the brain.
LeDoux identifies Panksepp’s emotion command system hypothesis as the most elaborated instantiation of the innate affect-program position, situating it as the central theoretical target for his own critique of conflating behavioral responses with subjective feelings.
, Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety, 2015thesis
As Jaak Panksepp put it: ‘Those habit structures are so incredibly robust, and once they are laid into a nervous system they will guide behaviour without free choice.’
Maté invokes Panksepp’s authority directly to argue that addiction represents neurologically entrenched habit structures that cannot be overcome by willpower alone, requiring instead the alleviation of underlying pain.
, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, 2008thesis
According to the neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp (Panksepp 1998), ‘distress/panic’ calls are made by infant rats and occur following social isolation.
Barrett documents Panksepp’s empirical claims about separation-distress vocalizations in rodents, engaging his evidence as part of a broader critical examination of whether such findings support a classical, discrete-emotion view.
, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, 2017thesis
I’d also like to thank Jaak Panksepp, who a number of years ago graciously accepted Jim Russell’s and my invitation to come to Boston and teach a month-long graduate seminar on his theoretical views.
Barrett acknowledges sustained personal intellectual engagement with Panksepp’s framework, underscoring that her constructionist theory was developed in explicit dialogue with, rather than ignorance of, his classical position.
, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, 2017supporting
The reader is directed to Jaak Panksepp’s work on peptides connected to emotions for a review of this important aspect of background feelings.
Damasio cites Panksepp’s neuropeptide research — specifically on social separation-distress and social-reward systems — as complementary empirical grounding for his own account of background feelings and the proto-self.
, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, 1999supporting
J. Panksepp, Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 250.
Maté’s bibliography documents multiple citations of Panksepp’s monograph and his collaborative papers on brain emotional systems and addiction, establishing Panksepp as a key empirical authority throughout the addiction chapters.
, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, 2008supporting
Panksepp, Jaak, 156, 339n3, 349nl3, 363n3
The index of Damasio’s The Feeling of What Happens records multiple references to Panksepp across discussions of peptides, emotions, and the proto-self, confirming his consistent presence as an empirical interlocutor.
, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, 1999aside