Healing Power Of Emotion Cl

by Fosha,Diana

• ISBN13: 9780393705485
• ISBN10: 039370548X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-16
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

We are hardwired to connect with one another, and we connect through our emotions. Our brains, bodies, and minds are inseparable from the emotions that animate them. Normal human development relies on the cultivation of relationships with others to form and nurture the self-regulatory circuits that enable emotion to enrich, rather than enslave, our lives. And just as emotionally traumatic events can tear apart the fabric of family and psyche, the emotions can become powerful catalysts for the transformations that are at the heart of the healing process. In this book, the latest addition to the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, leading neuroscientists, developmental psychologists, therapy researchers, and clinicians illuminate how to regulate emotion in a healthy way. A variety of emotions, both positive and negative, are examined in detail, drawing on both research and clinical observations. The role of emotion in bodily regulation, dyadic connection, marital communication, play, well-being, health, creativity, and social engagement is explored. The Healing Power of Emotion offers fresh, exciting, original, and groundbreaking work from the leading figures studying and working with emotion today.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Brain Emotional Systems and Qualities of Mental Life: From Animal Models of Affect to Implications for Psychotherapeutics	p. 1
Reciprocal Influences Between Body and Brain in the Perception and Expression of Affect: A Polyvagal Perspective	p. 27
The Functions of Emotion in Infancy: The Regulation and Communication of Rhythm, Sympathy, and Meaning in Human Development	p. 55
Multilevel Meaning Making and Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness Theory: The Emotional and the Polymorphic Polysemic Flow of Meaning	p. 86
Right Brain Affect Regulation: An Essential Mechanism of Development, Trauma, Dissociation, and Psychotherapy	p. 112
Emotion as Integration: A Possible Answer to the Question, What Is Emotion?	p. 145
Emotion and Recognition at Work: Energy, Vitality, Pleasure, Truth, Desire, and the Emergent Phenomenology of Transformational Experience	p. 172
Emotion, Mindfulness, and Movement: Expanding the Regulatory Boundaries of the Window of Affect Tolerance	p. 204
Emotion In Romantic Partners: Intimacy Found, Intimacy Lost, Intimacy Reclaimed	p. 232
Extravagant Emotion: Understanding and Transforming Love Relationships in Emotionally Focused Therapy	p. 257
The Communication of Emotions and the Growth of Autonomy and Intimacy within Family Therapy	p. 280
References	p. 305
Index	p. 335
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