Also, the mammalian brain is fundamentally a social brain, and it needs to be treated as such. (..). Thus, almost all mind-medicine interventions need to be complemented by appropriate psychosocial help, not only to trace and unravel the secondary- and tertiary-process derivatives of (perhaps lifelong) basic emotional imbalances, but also to guide, facilitate, and activate the desired primary-process affects. (..). Affective neuroscience highlights that the role of social emotions in all future therapeutic schools of thought must remain in focus in order for lasting improvements to be maximized.
— Archaeology of Mind by Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven (Page 1)
Affect = emotions and the neurological systems that form those emotions, basically.
(Woops put this quote with the wrong book, sorry for the double post.)