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9780470777114

Emotions: A Brief History

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470777114

  • ISBN10:

    0470777117

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-05-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Emotions: A Brief History investigates the history of emotions across cultures as well as the evolutionary history of emotions and of emotional development across an individual's life span.

Table of Contents

Preface
Meaning and ambiguity
Emotions: signals of what is vital
Evolution, culture, and a necessary ambivalence
Inherited repertoires of emotion built upon by culture and experience
Medicine for the soul
From Epicureans and Stoics via the seven deadly sins to cognitive therapy
Emotions and the brain
Accidents, imaging technologies, the new psychopharmacology
Social histories: emotions and relationships
Social goals of aggression, attachment, affiliation, and their mixtures
Individual histories
Emotional development from childhood to maturity
Emotional disorders
Excesses of sadness, anxiety, shame, and anger
Emotional intelligence
What is it to be emotionally intelligent? Are there skills to learn?
Endnotes
References
Index
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