Human Feelings provides a comprehensive overview of the role of emotions in human life. Growing out of the research and writing of members of the Harvard Affect Study Group, the volume brings to bear different disciplinary outlooks and modes of inquiry on various aspects of human affective experience. The book opens with a section of "Theoretical Considerations" that includes an overview of affective development across the life cycle and an examination of affect and character.
Key Features
- Includes an empirical analysis of gender differences in the expression of emotion.
- Features clinical reports involving patients in different age groups in the section "Affect and the Life Cycle."
- Covers topics such as trauma, addiction, psychosomatics, neurobiology, and creativity.
- Explores nonordinary states of consciousness and the vicissitudes of well-being in the final section, "New Directions."
- An integrative collection of multidisciplinary sweep and scholarly integrity.
Additional Information
An invaluable addition to the libraries of mental health professionals and developmental researchers, this volume will be illuminating for philosophers, social and political scientists, and lay readers as well.
