True to our feelings: what our emotions are really telling us

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Emotional Strategies: An Existentialist Perspective

1. Anger as a Way of Engaging the World

2. Why It Is Good to Be Afraid

3. Varieties of Fear and Anger: Emotions and Moods

4. Lessons of Love (and Plato's Symposium)

5. We Are Not Alone: Compassion and Sympathy

6. Extremes of Emotion: Grief, Laughter, and Happiness

7. Self-Reproach in Guilt, Shame, and Pride

8. Nasty Emotions: Envy, Spite, Jealousy, Resentment, and Vengeance

Part II. Toward a General Theory: Myths about Emotions

9. What an Emotion Theory Should Do

10. Myth 1: Emotions Are Ineffable

11. Myth 2: Emotions Are Feelings

12. Myth 3: The Hydraulic Model

13. Myth 4: Emotions Are "in" the Mind

14. Myth 5: Emotions Are Stupid (They Have No Intelligence)

15. Myth 6: Two Flavors of Emotion, Positive and Negative

16. Myth 7: Emotions Are Irrational

17. Myth 8: Emotions Happen to Us (They Are "Passions")

Part III. The Ethics of Emotion: A Quest for Emotional Integrity

18. Emotions as Evaluative Judgments

19. Emotions, Self, and Consciousness

20. Emotional Experience ("Feelings")

21. The Universality of Emotions: Evolution and the Human Condition

22. Emotions Across Cultures

23. Happiness, Spirituality, and Emotional Integrity

Annotated Bibliography

Index

1. Anger as a way of engaging the world

2. Why it is good to be afraid

3. Varieties of fear and anger : emotions and moods

4. Lessons of love (and Plato's Symposium)

5. We are not alone : compassion and sympathy

6. Extremes of emotion : grief, laughter, and happiness

7. Self-reproach in guilt, shame, and pride

8. Nasty emotions : envy, spite, jealousy, resentment, and vengeance

9. What an emotion theory should do

10. Myth 1 : emotions are ineffable

11. Myth 2 : emotions are feelings

12. Myth 3 : the hydraulic model

13. Myth 4 : emotions are "in" the mind

14. Myth 5 : emotions are stupid (they have no intelligence)

15. Myth 6 : two flavors of emotion, positive and negative

16. Myth 7 : emotions are irrational

17. Myth 8 : emotions happen to us (they are "passions")

18. Emotions as evaluative judgments

19. Emotions, self, and consciousness

20. Emotional experience ("feelings")

21. universality of emotions : evolution and the human condition

22. Emotions across cultures

23. Happiness, spirituality, and emotional integrity.