Psychology: emotions Books

What is Death?Is it a person, a place, a feeling?Is it good or bad?Is there a tunnel that we travel through and "go toward the light"?Do children think about Death differently than adults?Is Death our friend or our enemy?Is Death dark as night or a...

Why is play so important in child development? Are children in today's society suffering from a lack of time for free play, with the emerging dominance of screen play? Can play therapy help to uncover, rescue and rehabilitate children living in abusive...

Bearing Witness to the Witness examines the different methods of testimony given by trauma victims and the ways in which these can enrich or undermine the ability of the reader to witness them. Years of listening to both direct and indirect testimonies...

This edited collection takes a critical perspective on Norbert Elias's theory of the "civilizing process," through historical essays and contemporary analysis from sociologists and cultural theorists. It focuses on changes in emotional regimes or styles...

What does it mean to be 'present and accounted for' when a family member is facing chronic illness or death? How does one define a self in relation to the ill or dying member and the family? Rooted in Murray Bowen's family systems theory, this edited...

Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to social change look like - and how they work - so we can recognize and inform our collective attempts to avert...

The Laws of Emotion is an accessible work that reviews much of the insightful new research on emotions conducted over the last ten years. It expands on the theory of emotions introduced in Nico Frijda's earlier work and addresses a number of...

This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption,...

The most influential relationship we will ever have is with mother. We would not be alive without it. We would not be who we are today without the years of constant engagement with her. Our relationship with Mom is typically filled with love and...

In Know Yourself Choleric, Alex Carberry has written a concentrated and powerful new book which again breaks fresh ground by drawing on ancient Sufic traditions and other time-honoured sources of wisdom in order to help you discover your true nature and...

This book, unlike others you have probably read, employs none of the jargon usually associated with psychology or psychiatry, and it may well prove to be the best book on psychotherapy for laymen ever written. It can provide emotionally disturbed...

Rational Self-Love: Or A Philosophical And Moral Essay On The Natural Principles Of Happiness And Virtue is a book written by Laurence Nihell in 1770. The book is a philosophical and moral essay that explores the natural principles of happiness and...

""Health And Power Through Right Thinking"" is a self-help book written by John Wesley Carter and originally published in 1915. The book focuses on the power of positive thinking and how it can improve one's physical and mental health. Carter argues that...

Catastrophes unsettle our safe places within the world. As such, they provide an interesting site to analyze the intersection of our affective and political lives.

Nostalgia and Political Theory advocates the central importance of nostalgia as a theoretical response to the 'historic' past and a vertiginous present. Detailed analyses of diverse theoretical approaches reassess the relation between nostalgia and...

Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been; and where, especially in the Western world,...

Compassionate Pet Loss support is available for you. A pet loss book to get immediate support to heal your heart.You just came home from the veterinarian's office, and it feels like a brick hit you right smack on the head. You heard that your dog has a...

This book shows that the facets of alexithymia influence several aspects of how one perceives and responds to neutral and emotional situations, by impacting multiple cognitive processes (attention, appraisals, memory, language and behavior).

Dark Emotions is a book about a range of emotional experiences that are often regarded or characterized as 'negative', 'disturbing' or 'dark' as contrasted with emotions that are 'positive', pleasant' or 'light'.

This edition was conceived and compiled to meet the need for a comprehensive book for practitioners, academics, and students on the research of emotions in organizational behavior. The book is the first of its kind to incorporate organizational behavior...

Affect is a high-stakes topic in psychoanalysis, but there has long been a misperception that Lacan neglected affect in his writings. We encounter affect at the beginning of any analysis in the form of subjective suffering that the patient hopes to...

Winner of the 2009 Feminist & Women's Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Award!Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the extremity of feelings it provokes, and the profound changes it seems to prompt in identity,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Forgiving those closest to us who have hurt us is one of the most difficult things Christians are called to do. For pastoral counselors the forgiveness issue creates a particularly serious dilemma, because it places counselors in the position of telling...

The editors of this volume are committed to the philosophy of treating emotionally disturbed children in the life milieu. Both have been intensely involved in training "online" therapists--child care workers. They are convinced that there is no one...

This book explores　the theme of　happiness and　well-being　from religious, spiritual, philosophical, psychological, humanistic and health perspectives.　

Essays V1: Moral And Entertaining On The Various Faculties And Passions Of The Human Mind (1815) is a book written by Edward Hyde Earl Of Clarendon. It is a collection of essays that explore the different aspects of human nature, including the various...

This unique book includes 19 chapters by an international cast of authors, addressing aspects of loss and trauma connected to the virus, including covid and posttraumatic stress, covid and love, covid and bereaved families, covid and ageism, and covid...

Unique in its approach, Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions gives students a brief, but thorough, introduction to the sociology of emotions. In this new edition, the author updates the volume with recent research on emotion management, emotional...

This book works through the notion of the alien in contemporary philosophy. The authors attempt to think through politics, posthumanism, and alienation beyond and across the circuitry of thought that would otherwise enfold the alien in its regressive and...

This volume explores the abiding intellectual inertia in scientific psychology in relation to the discipline's engagement with problematic beliefs and assumptions underlying mainstream research practices, despite repeated critical analysis which reveal...

Originally published in 1982, this book provides rich evidence of the relevance of the temporal aspects of behavior. The generalized areas of learning, memory, operant scheduled behavior, task performance, vigilance, mood and motivation and their...

Offering a uniquely 'psycho-cultural' take on the emotional dynamics of UK political culture this book uses theories and research in psychoanalysis, cultural and media studies and political sociology. It explores the cultural and emotional processes that...

From Grief to Grind address the truth, pain, the release and relationship we have with grief. So many of us are scared, ashamed, at our pain that we mask and keep going. In this book you will witness 8 women share their real and heartfelt stories of loss...

Stages of Self is a poetically written journey showing women how to break the cycles of disempowerment and pain embedded in their lives. But it is also so much more than that. This new and unique framework, told through the story of five elegantly...

This book offers an original account of the good life in late modernity through a uniquely sociological lens. It considers the various ways that social and cultural factors can encourage or impede genuine efforts to live a good life by deconstructing the...

In The Suicidal Mind, Dr. Shneidman has written a groundbreaking work which brims with insight into the suicidal impulse and with helpful suggestions on how to counteract it. Shneidman presents a bold and simple premise: the main cause of suicide is...

This book investigates a group of exceptional films that single-mindedly consider one particular emotion - be it pity, lust, grief, or anxiety - to examine cinematic emotion in depth.Drawing on philosophical and psychological approaches, Fischer's unique...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

How can we create moments of awe in the lives of our students? Moments that will inspire them, enlighten and fuel their passion for learning. How can we elevate our students and turn the every day in to the extra-ordinary? This collection of essays...

Jealousy and envy permeate the practice of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work. New experience and new relevance of old but neglected ideas about these two feeling states and their origins warrant special attention, both as to theory and practice...

We all make choices every moment of every day.  We begin our days with the choice of when to get up.  We decide what we are going to wear, what to eat, and when to leave.  We decide how to get to where we are going.  And that is just...