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How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like


Paul Bloom



From Publishers Weekly Bloom (Descartes' Baby), a psychology professor at Yale, explores pleasure from evolutionary and s...
Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea

Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea


Alberto Toscano



Review A tour de force in every sense—Toscano wipes the smug smiles off the self-righteous faces of the New Philos...
Psychological aspects of geographical moves: homesickness and acculturation stress

Psychological aspects of geographical moves: homesickness and acculturation stress


A. J.J.M. Vingerhoets, Miranda A.L. Van Tilburg



About the Author Miranda van Tilburg is assistant professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, USA. Her res...
Emotion-Focused Cognitive Therapy

Emotion-Focused Cognitive Therapy


Mick Power



From the Back Cover Over the past century, psychology has evolved from a discipline dominated by a focus on behaviour int...
A General Theory of Love

A General Theory of Love


Fari Amini, Richard Lannon



Amazon.com Review Poor, poor science--it gets blamed for everything. While it might be true that some of our alienation ...
Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion

Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion


Kay Milton



Review 'This is a deeply intelligent and rewarding book. It is lucidly written, blessedly free of academic preening, and ...
The art of the subject: between necessary illusion and speakable desire in the analytic encounter

The art of the subject: between necessary illusion and speakable desire in the analytic encounter


Mardy S. Ireland



Review Metapsychology Online Book Reviews 2004"Mardy Ireland is more than just well informed in the matters of psychoanal...
The mind and its stories: narrative universals and human emotion

The mind and its stories: narrative universals and human emotion


Patrick Colm Hogan



Review "This marvelous book reconnects the study of literature to the themes that have made it eternally fascinating, and...
Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues

Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues


Ad Vingerhoets, Ivan Nyklíek, Marcel Zeelenberg



Review From the reviews: "This book represents the key contributions of a conference on emotions, emotion regulation and h...
The Struggle Against Mourning

The Struggle Against Mourning


Ilany Kogan



Review From the triple vantage points of individual grief, communal struggles with trauma, and societies existing under c...
Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion

Loving Nature: Towards an Ecology of Emotion


Kay Milton



Review 'This is a deeply intelligent and rewarding book. It is lucidly written, blessedly free of academic preening, and ...
Informalization: Manners and Emotions Since 1890 (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Informalization: Manners and Emotions Since 1890 (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)


Dr Cas Wouters



Review Cas Wouters stakes out a powerful theory about changes in human relationships in the Western world over the past t...
Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties, and Plausibility of Hedonism

Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties, and Plausibility of Hedonism


Fred Feldman



Review `Clearly written, accessible, and often rewarding . . . valuable especially for its insightful discussion of many ...
Happiness: unlocking the mysteries of psychological wealth

Happiness: unlocking the mysteries of psychological wealth




Review “Happiness challenges the present thinking of the causes and consequences of happiness and redefines our mod...
Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict (Contemporary Psychology)

Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help Us Wage Good Conflict (Contemporary Psychology)


Evelin Lindner



Review "This beautifully written book is an education in itself. Every page informs and challenges received modes of thin...
Encyclopedia of Emotion (2 Volumes Set)

Encyclopedia of Emotion (2 Volumes Set)


Gretchen Reevy, Yuri Ito, Yvette Malamud Ozer



From The Encyclopedia of Emotion possesses all of the expected, standard apparatus of a subject encyclopedia—a li...
Emotion Talk Across Corpora

Emotion Talk Across Corpora


Monika Bednarek



Review '...working at the interface of two complementary perspectives on language, corpus linguistics and systemic functi...
What Is Emotion?: History, Measures, and Meanings

What Is Emotion?: History, Measures, and Meanings


Jerome Kagan



Review “Dr. Kagan’s book is chock-full of interesting and clever observations as well as novel insights. It...
The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook

The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook


Edmund J. Bourne



About the Author Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D., has specialized in the treatment of anxiety disorders and related problems for ...
The Anger Management Sourcebook

The Anger Management Sourcebook


Glenn Schiraldi, Melissa Kerr



From the Back Cover "A 'must-use book' for those who are serious about managing their anger more effectively."--Robert J. H...
Lower Limb Amputation: A Guide to Living a Quality Life

Lower Limb Amputation: A Guide to Living a Quality Life


Adrian Cristian



About the Author Dr. Adrian Cristian is Chief of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine as well as Chief of the Ampute...
Embodied Grounding: Social, Cognitive, Affective, and Neuroscientific Approaches

Embodied Grounding: Social, Cognitive, Affective, and Neuroscientific Approaches


Eliot R. Smith, Gün R. Semin



Book Description Exploring these issues involves laying aside an ancient Western tradition that placed body and mind in o...
A Philosophy of Boredom

A Philosophy of Boredom


Lars Svendsen



Review "An amusing, learned, and articulate philosophical study of one of humanity''s prime afflictions. . . Svendsen has...
Hypnosis, Dissociation and Survivors of Child Abuse: Understanding and Treatment

Hypnosis, Dissociation and Survivors of Child Abuse: Understanding and Treatment




From the Back Cover There is a strong argument for the educated and professional use of hypnosis in the field of trauma, ...
Ideas and Realities of Emotion (International Library of Psychology)

Ideas and Realities of Emotion (International Library of Psychology)


Brian Parkinson



Review "Does the world really need another book on emotion? If that book is Brian Parkinson's Ideas and Realities of Emot...
Transforming Emotions With Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

Transforming Emotions With Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)


Yanhua Zhang



From the Back Cover Chinese medicine approaches emotions and emotional disorders differently than the Western biomedica...
Fear and Other Uninvited Guests: Tackling the Anxiety, Fear, and Shame That Keep Us from Optimal Living and Loving

Fear and Other Uninvited Guests: Tackling the Anxiety, Fear, and Shame That Keep Us from Optimal Living and Loving


Harriet Lerner



From Publishers Weekly "No one is immune to the grip of anxiety, fear and shame—the ‘big three’ that muck ...
Revealing the Inner Worlds of Young Children: The MacArthur Story Stem Battery and Parent-Child Narratives

Revealing the Inner Worlds of Young Children: The MacArthur Story Stem Battery and Parent-Child Narratives


Robert N. Ee, David Oppenheim, Dennis P. Wolf



Review "The Battery is a systematic group of story beginnings enacted in play that a consortium of researchers in psychol...
Coping and Complaining: Attachment and the Language of Dis-ease

Coping and Complaining: Attachment and the Language of Dis-ease


Simon Wilkinson



About the Author Simon Wilkinson leads the adolescent services at the Sogn Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Un...
Emotion and Consciousness

Emotion and Consciousness


Lisa Feldman Barrett, Paula M. Niedenthal, Piotr Winkielman



Review The chapters in this wonderful book are informative, intelligent, and occasionally startling. Emotion and consciou...