Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Vol 46(2), May 2026, 85-95; doi:10.1037/teo0000359
Logic-based therapy provides a multimodal structural analysis of cognitive emotions in terms of a logico-linguistic framework that interfaces synergistically with affective, behavioral, and neurological aspects. This framework consists of intentional objects and evaluative speech acts embedded in chains of emotional reasoning, which manifest differently in different cognitive emotions. For instance, the intentional objects and speech acts involved in anxiety are different than in depression and in their subtypes. The latter speech acts consist of various combinations of catastrophizing, awfulizing, damnation, demanding, and disavowing. These speech acts, in turn, give an illocutionary force to their respective emotions. This article provides an analysis of different types of cognitive emotions in terms of the stated framework. It shows how logic-based therapy therapists can symbolize the illocutionary force operators ranging over the premises of clients’ emotional reasoning in diverse emotions. It also demonstrates how the latter linguistic operators relate to logical operators such as modal operators of necessity and possibility in the premises of emotional reasoning. In this way, logic-based therapy therapists can gain greater clarity in interpreting the emotional reasoning underlying their clients’ emotions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)