Psychology: emotions

Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present and the emotional dynamics that helped to shape them.

'Written with such understanding and power it takes your breath away' - JEREMY VINEDISCOVER THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF SENSITIVITYHave you even been told you are being 'too sensitive'?

This important book offers a model to analyze the configurations of reality as manifested in everyday practices of eating and drinking in relation to the development of human subjectivity.

Philosophical reflection on the emotions has a long history stretching back to classical Greek thought, even though at times philosophers have marginalized or denigrated them in favour of reason.

Character traits may be used as defenses, or, 'coping mechanisms' that may be developed by individuals in an exaggerated fashion in order to conceal psychological conflicts.

This book covers the foundations and successes of Neuroergonomics, combining neuroscience and ergonomics to enhance efficiency and safety.

This book offers new insights into how English speakers talk about their own and others' emotions.

The comprehensive guide to getting close, and closer!

This major theoretical work takes existing work on the emotions in significantly new directions.

Positive Psychology is a swiftly expanding field, attracting academics who commit their careers to its advancement.

This book employs contemporary philosophy, scientific research, and clinical reports to argue that pain, though real, is not an appropriate object of scientific generalisations or an appropriate target for medical intervention.

The question 'how far can emotions be changed?

Nostalgia is a topic that most lay people are familiar with, but, until recently, few social scientists understood.

Showing how Americans have massively turned to a self-help empowerment model to manage chronic feelings of insecurity, Anxiety in Middle-Class America explains why no group has ever been as anxious about anxiety and interested in tackling it as a moral and personal problem.

This volume addresses the place of the emotions in literary representations of war across six centuries of European history.

A roadmap to navigating the personal and professional transitions of your twenties, with practical insights and reassurance that you're not alone, from the host of the top podcast The Psychology of Your 20s.

This volume presents 18 different treatment modalities for the same case, demonstrating a rich variety of interventions available for treating relationship problems.

The importance of facial expressions has led to a steadily growing body of empirical findings and theoretical analyses.

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Those Who Say They Can't is a comprehensive aid for people who stifle their personal freedom, creativity, and autonomy by telling themselves they "e;can't"e; do things such as: take risks; make commitments; control their anger or fear; avoid intrusive thoughts; tolerate disappointment; accept challenges, make decisions, and more.

This book presents an introduction to strategies for qualitative digital social research on emotions in a digital world.

Iconoclastic in spirit, Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in LatinAmerica is the first study of affect and emotion in magical realist literature.

'I was fourteen when I found my Dad trying to commit suicide in the garage.

Know Your Mind is a comprehensive guide to more than 50 everyday emotional and psychological problems - the definitive resource for anyone seeking advice for themselves, or for a family member or friend.

A unique account of how booms and busts arise from internal disputes over trust between financial corporations.

Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique and personal reflection.

Comprendre les racines de sa haine pour mieux s'en libérer

Né dans une famille dysfonctionnelle, Stéphane Gendron grandit avec un sérieux trouble de l'attachement, et il développe une hantise de la mort devenue maladive avec les années.

Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others?

In A Toolkit for Your Emotions, Emma takes a deep dive into how we feel and explains all the tools you need to intercept and redirect challenging emotion.

What can a brain scan, or our reaction to a Caravaggio painting, reveal about the deep seat of guilt?

This important volume defines the state of the art in the field of emotion and memory by offering a blend of research review, unpublished findings, and theory on topics related to its study.

Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay "e;On Anger"e; (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c.

Emerging research on the subject of happiness-in psychology, economics, and public policy-reawakens and breathes new life into long-standing philosophical questions about happiness (e.

The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911.

To understand the profound changes in the modes of public political debate over the past decade, this volume develops a new conception of public spheres as spaces of resonance emerging from the power of language to affect and to ascribe and instill collective emotion.

This book is a philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action.

Recent political conflicts signal an increased proliferation of image testimonies shared widely via social media.

This book presents innovative tools for helping patients to understand their emotional schemas--such as the conviction that painful feelings are unbearable, shameful, or will last indefinitely--and develop new ways of accepting and coping with affective experience.

This book makes evident how love, as an interstitial practice, produces a set of collective practices and how, through a mapping of these practices, it is possible to observe the connection between the politics of sensibilities and social conflict.

Gratitude, like other positive emotions, has inspired many theological and philosophical writings, but it has inspired very little vigorous, empirical research.

Discover the incredible psychic abilities of cats, dogs, horses, canaries, and more in this revelatory book from an expert of interspecies communication.

Praise for the author:'Deborah Plummer uses imagination and empowerment to move children and adults from discouragement to success.

Stimulated by the publication of The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, Parenting and the Child's World was conceived around the notion that there are multiple sources of influence on children's development, including parenting behavior, family resources, genetic and other biological factors, as well as social influences from peers, teachers, and the community at large.

Drawing on cutting-edge research on adult attachment--and providing an innovative roadmap for clinical practice--Susan M.

An important contribution to the burgeoning field of the ethics of recognition, this book examines the contradictions inherent in the very concept of intimacy.

The search for happiness has been an enduring quest for us all.

A ground breaking study of the ways that intimate relationships are similar around the world, and the ways they are different.

Hope is not an attitude--it's a way of life.