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Zusatztext "Susan Beth Miller skillfully portrays emotions as fluid! multifaceted (experiential! physiological! cognitive! conscious! unconscious)! sometimes contradictory! and intrinsically relational. Our feelings reflect appraisals of the world and they reconfigure our selves accordingly! prompting us toward receptive engagement or guarded defensiveness. To her research! Miller brings the knowledge and sensitivity of a sophisticated psychoanalytic clinician! supplemented with insights from anthropology! philosophy! psychology! and literature. Her impressive meditation on emotion will stimulate valuable thoughts in readers! intensifying and enriching their interest in! and understanding of! the affective spectra they encounter in themselves! their patients! and others."-Brent Willock! author of Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis! is Founding President! Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Informationen zum Autor Susan Beth Miller is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She enjoys writing fiction as well as non-fiction and has published the novel, Indigo Rose , in addition to The Shame Experience , Shame in Context , Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion and a book for teenagers with troubled parents entitled When Parents Have Problems . Zusammenfassung Emotions of Menace and Enchantment examines four pivotal human emotions. It explores what defines these emotions, how they interact, and how they impact the experience of self-boundary. All four feelings speak to the boundary around the self, to whether we stiffen that boundary, relax it or worry about its fraying. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Entering the World of Emotion; Chapter 2: The Gatekeeper Emotion: Disgust; Chapter 3: The Breakdown Emotion: Horror; Chapter 4: The Imbibing Emotion: Awe; Chapter 5: The Fixed Eye of Fascination; Concluding Comments
