Best Laid Schemes: The Psychology of Emotions

ISBN-13: 9780521423878 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 544 str.

Keith Oatley

Opis

A cognitive psychologist who has also trained as a psychotherapist, Keith Oatley is Professor of Applied Psychology at the Centre for Applied Cognitive Science at The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and author of Brain Mechanisms and Mind, Perceptions and Representations: The Theoretical Bases of Brain Research, and Selves in Relation: An Introduction to Psychotherapy and Groups.

Recenzje

'Best Laid Schemes … [is] extremely valuable for everyone interested in emotions … The scope of [the] book is immense … [it] makes you wonder whether anyone should write another book on this issue … [This] original and brilliant book will have a significant impact on every attempt to deal with the emotions.' History of European Ideas

Spis treści

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Part I. Theory and Function: 1. The structure of emotions; 2. Intuitive and empirical approaches to understanding; 3. Rationality and emotions; 4. Mutual plans and social emotions; Part II. Conflict and Unpredictability: 5. Plans and emotions in fictional narrative; 6. Stress and distress; 7. Freud's cognitive psychology of intention: the case of Dora; Part III. Enjoyment and Creativity: 8. Happiness; 9. Putting emotions into words; Epilogue; Notes; References; Author index; Subject index.