Inward Bound Exploring the Geography of Your Emotions

by KEEN, SAM

• ISBN13: 9780553353884
• ISBN10: 0553353888
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-05-01
• Publisher: Bantam

Summary

A reissue of a long out-of-print book by the author of the New York Times bestseller Fire in the Belly, completely revised with new material and a new introduction. Keen explains how to take the time to understand what our bodies and minds are telling us when we are bored or depressed, moody or sapped of energy.

Author Biography

Sam Keen is a noted author and lecturer who has written thirteen books on philosophy and religion. He earned graduate degrees from the Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University, and spent twenty years working as an editor of Psychology Today. Keen coproduced the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Faces of the Enemy, and was the subject of a PBS special with Bill Moyers entitled Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen. When not writing or traveling around the world lecturing and giving seminars on a wide range of topics, Keen cuts wood, tends to his farm in the hills above Sonoma, takes long hikes, and practices the flying trapeze.

Table of Contents

Introduction: No Rainbow Without Blues	p. vii
Boredom, Blahs, and Blues: The Geography of Night Country
The Boredom Epidemic	p. 3
A Short History of the Blues and the Noontide Demon	p. 16
Life-styles: Runners, Fighters, and Hiders	p. 36
A Map for Psychonauts	p. 42
Fatigue: The Personal Energy Crisis	p. 48
Simple Boredom: Monotony	p. 59
Chronic Boredom	p. 80
The Deepening Darkness: Depression and Apathy	p. 102
The Whole-Some Life
The Upward Spiral: A Preview	p. 115
The Joyful Art of Doing Nothing	p. 117
Breakout: Beyond Guilt and Shame	p. 127
The Renewal of Imagination and Desire	p. 136
Feeling Alive: Unfreezing E-motions	p. 143
Risk Taking	p. 160
From Sex to Intimacy	p. 178
The Politics of Depression and Hope	p. 198
Notes	p. 220
Index	p. 223
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