Going with your gut feels good, but it’s not always wise | Psyche Ideas

Carina Remmersis professor of clinical psychology and psychotherapy at Health and Medical University in Potsdam, Germany, and a licensed psychodynamic psychotherapist. She has published numerous papers on intuition, emotion-regulation and psychopathology. Edited by Matt Huston Save Share Post Email We make numerous decisions from day to day – some through deliberation, others more intuitively, from the ‘gut’. It’s only 7 o’clock in the morning, but I have already made a few gut decisions. I have a four-month-old son who was hungry at 5 am. After breastfeeding, he wanted to engage in our usual morning sing-song play. But, looking at him, I had the impression that he was still very tired. I don’t know exactly why; maybe it was something in his eyes, or the way he moved. Whatever it was, I listened to my intuition and decided to give him a kiss and leave him to sleep some more. I felt pleased in doing so. After getting back to bed myself, I realised that, unlike my son, I didn’t feel like

Carina Remmersis professor of clinical psychology and psychotherapy at Health and Medical University in Potsdam, Germany, and a licensed psychodynamic psychotherapist. She has published numerous papers on intuition, emotion-regulation and psychopathology. Edited by Matt Huston Save Share Post Email We make numerous decisions from day to day – some through deliberation, others more intuitively, from the ‘gut’. It’s only 7 o’clock in the morning, but I have already made a few gut decisions. I have a four-month-old son who was hungry at 5 am. After breastfeeding, he wanted to engage in our usual