The term emotional intelligence first appeared in a 1966 German article entitled “Emotional Intelligence and Emancipation,” by Hanscarl Leuner.1 A research psychologist, Leuner hypothesized that adult women who reject their social roles do so because of their low emotional intelligence. Though he gave no clear definition or measure of his concept, he theorized that his clients were having difficulties understanding and regulating their own emotions because of their premature separation from their mothers. His treatment for the women in his case studies combined administration of the hallucinogenic drug LSD with psychotherapy.
A subsequent reference to emotional intelligence appeared in 1985, in an unpublished ...
