Emotions: Can You Trust Them? The Best-Selling Guide to Understanding and Managing Your Feelings of Anger, Guilt, Self-Awareness and Love

by Dobson, James

• ISBN13: 9780830732401
• ISBN10: 0830732403
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-08
• Publisher: Regal

Summary

Dr. James Dobson provides practical guidelines and simple steps to help anyone understand their emotions so that they can improve interaction with others. Love, anger and guilt are emotions that can be a very positive force in our lives if we lean to recognize and cope with these aspects of who we are. The sound teaching of this book will help dispel the myths surrounding the way we thing about our emotions and will separate distorted thinking from the real thing-for instance, distinguishing between infatuation and true love. Learn how to interpret and understand a broad range of emotions and separate fantasy from reality.

Author Biography

JAMES C. DOBSON, PH.D. is founder and chairman of the board for Focus on the Family. His internationally syndicated radio program, Focus on the Family, is heard daily by more than 200 million people. Dr. Dobson is featured in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, and has authored many best-selling books, including Emotions: Can You Trust Them? and Preparing for Adolescence. He and his wife, Shirley, have two grown children and reside in Colorado.

Table of Contents

Introduction Emotions in the Christian Life	p. 1
Guilt	p. 17
Guilt: The Painful Emotion	p. 19
The Origin of Guilt	p. 20
Living with Conscience	p. 32
Parental Training of the Conscience	p. 43
Eight Conclusions About Guilt	p. 53
Learning--Discussion Ideas	p. 54
Romantic Love	p. 67
Romantic Love: Distortion Versus the Real Thing	p. 69
Beliefs About Love	p. 76
I Am Committed to You	p. 96
Learning--Discussion Ideas	p. 100
Anger	p. 113
Conflict in a Floral Shop	p. 115
What Is Anger? When Is It Sinful?	p. 120
How Do You Deal with Anger?	p. 130
Aspects of Anger	p. 148
Learning--Discussion Ideas	p. 150
Interpretation of Impressions	p. 157
Can You Know God's Will	p. 159
Why You Can't Trust Inner Feelings and Impressions	p. 160
How to Test Inner Feelings and Impressions	p. 173
How to Know God's Will	p. 189
Learning--Discussion Ideas	p. 197
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