Cognitive behavioral therapy says that emotional reasoning is important to a human being, but, can become hijacked by the brain to manifest in many psychosomatic disorders, such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorders, neuroticisms, tics, and other manifestations of aberrant brain activity with regards to emotions.

In this thread, I propose that psychologically there must be some logic to emotions, much as Hume described reason as the handmaiden of the passions. The ancient Stoics, Aristotelians, and others wrote extensively on the virtues which became associated with, not so much, "emotions", but, rather "dispositions" towards how one ought to feel or profess their state of mind.

Yet, again Hume said that one cannot derive an "is" from an "ought", and the ancients seemingly bridged that gap. My opinion is that "emotions", well cultured emotions, carry some kind of (though, not necessarily evolutionary psychology) a primordial instinctive drive towards what one ought to feel in any given situation.

So, given this short stream of consciousness opening post, what kind of logic do you think emotions entail for a person?