The word nostalgia – from the Greek nostros, to return home, and algos, meaning pain – was coined by medical student Johannes Hofer in 1688, when he described a disorder observed in homesick Swiss mercenaries stationed in Italy and France.
1938 paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry referred to “immigrant psychosis“: a condition marked by a combination of homesickness, exhaustion and loneliness.
While some of us are more prone to nostalgia than others (See “How nostalgic are you?“), most of us experience it at least once a week,
One theory to explain this is that nostalgia gives us a sense of continuity in life. While so much in our lives can change – jobs, where we live, relationships – nostalgia reminds us that we are the same person we were at our seventh birthday party as on our wedding day and at our retirement celebration.
nostalgia is a by-product of how we remember.
Nostalgic memory is all about the emotion, not what really happened
“collective nostalgia” – it promotes a sense of belonging and strengthens in-group bonds, which may have had survival benefits in early, tribal societies.
The trouble is, that carefree past “never really existed”,
As advertisers know well, evoking it is an effective selling strategy.
NOSTALGIA SCORE-The lower you score, the more likely you are to see yourself as very independent, feel less connection to others and use less healthy coping skills.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Batcho_Nostalgia_Inventory.pdf
1938 paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry referred to “immigrant psychosis“: a condition marked by a combination of homesickness, exhaustion and loneliness.
While some of us are more prone to nostalgia than others (See “How nostalgic are you?“), most of us experience it at least once a week,
One theory to explain this is that nostalgia gives us a sense of continuity in life. While so much in our lives can change – jobs, where we live, relationships – nostalgia reminds us that we are the same person we were at our seventh birthday party as on our wedding day and at our retirement celebration.
nostalgia is a by-product of how we remember.
Nostalgic memory is all about the emotion, not what really happened
“collective nostalgia” – it promotes a sense of belonging and strengthens in-group bonds, which may have had survival benefits in early, tribal societies.
The trouble is, that carefree past “never really existed”,
As advertisers know well, evoking it is an effective selling strategy.
NOSTALGIA SCORE-The lower you score, the more likely you are to see yourself as very independent, feel less connection to others and use less healthy coping skills.
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Batcho_Nostalgia_Inventory.pdf
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