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Title: Passion and Reason: Making Sense of Our Emotions by Richard S. Lazarus, Bernice N. Lazarus ISBN: 0-19-510461-7 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Thinking Person's Guide to feelings
Comment: This is a comprehensive handbook and user guide to human emotions. It has the depth, rigor, and authority of an academic text and the accessibility of a self-help book. It unravels mysteries of human behavior that I wondered about for years.
The book begins with a grand tour of fifteen emotions. Each of these detailed tours begins with a case study followed by a description of the unique dramatic plot, the underlying assessment of personal goals, provocation, personal meaning, and coping strategies for each emotion. The logic underlying each emotion is analyzed. Subtle but useful distinctions are described between related emotions and between emotions and their synonyms. For example, the distinction between envy and jealousy, the difference between anxiety, fright, fear, and horror and the differentiation between embarrassment, shame, shyness, and humiliation is made clear.
A central theory of the book is that emotion and logic ("heart" and "head") cannot be separated. Each emotion begins with our appraisal of how we have been harmed or benefited in a certain way. After this appraisal, we choose a course of action. Knowing the logic of each emotion allows you to decipher peoples' emotional patterns and reconcile them with personal goals.
The book concludes with discussion of several practical implications. These include emotions and their relationship to stress and health as well as descriptions of psychotherapy approaches that can be helpful when coping fails.
I look forward to re-reading and studying this substantial book again and again.
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Title: Emotion and Adaptation by Richard S. Lazarus ISBN: 019509266X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Fifty Years of the Research and Theory of R. S. Lazarus: An Analysis of Historical and Perennial Issues by Richard S. Lazarus ISBN: 0805826572 Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
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Title: Stress and Emotion: A New Synthesis by Richard S. Lazarus ISBN: 0826112501 Publisher: Springer Pub Co Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: About Love by Robert C. Solomon ISBN: 1568331665 Publisher: Madison Books Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Stress, Coping and Development: An Integrative Perspective by Carolyn M. Aldwin ISBN: 1572305436 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 16 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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