The Hidden Genius of Emotion: Lifespan Transformations of Personality

ISBN-13: 9780521640947 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 548 str.

Carol Magai; Jeannette Haviland-Jones; Keith Oatley

Opis

This book is about emotion and personality, focusing on how emotion powerfully influences moment-to-moment thoughts, behaviors, and interpersonal interactions. Though emotion is continually present, it is seldom in consciousness, and thus affects lives in a covert manner. This hidden influence is revealed through the example of the lives of three famous mid-century psychologists: Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, and Fritz Perls. Carol Magai and Jeanette Haviland-Jones show how each person has his or her own unique "emotional organization," that exerts a distinct and unique bias on what we see, feel, and think.

Recenzje

"Ambitious, textured, and elegant... This book is a tour de force demonstration of how one can indeed carry out a study of the whole person in all his or her complexity. Highly recommended." Choice

Spis treści

Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Challenging the prevailing view; 2. Affect, human development, and dynamic systems; Part II. Emotion as the Integrative Link in Social and Personality Development: 3. Lives attracted to shame and longing: Rogers; 4. Lives repelled by fear and distress: Ellis; 5. Lives repelled and attracted by contempt and shame: Perls; Part III. Emotion as the Link in Intellectual Work: 6. Wisdom and passion; 7. Cognitive stages and joy, surprise: Rogers; 8. Cartesian logic and anger, fear: Ellis; 9. Dialectical logic and excitement, disgust and shame: Perls; Part IV. Emotion as the Link in Therapeutic Behavior: 10. Postures and climate in dyadic interaction; Part V. Presenting a New View: 11. Summarizing the emotional links; 12. Lives and change: emotional energy in linear, complex, and chaotic personality systems.