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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 different modes of inquiry
on various aspects of human affective experience. The book opens
with an section of "Theoretical Considerations" that includes an
overview of affective development across the life cycle, an
examination of affect and character, and an empirical analysis of
gender differences in the expression of emotion. A series of
clinical reports involving patients in different age groups
comprises the next section, "Affect and the Life Cycle." Subsequent
sections on "Trauma, Addiction, and Psychosomatics" and
"Transformations of Affect" traverse the realms of neurobiology,
addictive suffering, stress disorders, epistemology, creativity,
and social organization. A final section, "New Directions," further
extends the frontiers of inquiry into nonordinary states of
consciousness and the vicissitudes of well-being. An integrative
collection of multidisciplinary sweep and scholarly integrity,
Human Feelings is a readable source book that brings together
rigorous theoretical and developmental studies, experientially
vivid self-reporting, and a wealth of illustrative clinical
material. 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.
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 different modes of inquiry
on various aspects of human affective experience. The book opens
with an section of "Theoretical Considerations" that includes an
overview of affective development across the life cycle, an
examination of affect and character, and an empirical analysis of
gender differences in the expression of emotion. A series of
clinical reports involving patients in different age groups
comprises the next section, "Affect and the Life Cycle." Subsequent
sections on "Trauma, Addiction, and Psychosomatics" and
"Transformations of Affect" traverse the realms of neurobiology,
addictive suffering, stress disorders, epistemology, creativity,
and social organization. A final section, "New Directions," further
extends the frontiers of inquiry into nonordinary states of
consciousness and the vicissitudes of well-being.
An integrative collection of multidisciplinary sweep and
scholarly integrity, Human Feelings is a readable source book that
brings together rigorous theoretical and developmental studies,
experientially vivid self-reporting, and a wealth of illustrative
clinical material. 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.
John Mack explored alien encounter experiences deeply, revealing a
world of meaning and power that can revolutionize our understanding
of who we are and our place in the cosmos. Dr. Mack suggests that
such experiences reveal to us a universe which is filled with
intelligence and life, though this may not always take the densely
embodied form with which we are most familiar. This book brings us
to the edge of material reality and beyond, shattering the boundary
that has separated matter and spirit and scientific or spiritual
ways of knowing. Dr. Mack asks us to move beyond the largely
useless debate about whether UFOs or abductions are real in a
purely material sense. He shows us the limited way that we have
used ourselves in learning about the cosmos, and challenges the
limitations of traditional science as a way to learn about the
multi-dimensional world in which we reside. Insights about the
relationship between spiritual and physical energy; trauma's role
in transformation; information about the ecological crisis facing
the planet and the urgency that we do something about it; the
possibility that human beings are participating in the creation of
some sort of interdimensional hybrid race; the expansion of human
consciousness and our spiritual reawakening; and the apparent
evolution of extraordinary relationships that some human beings may
be developing beyond the earth plane - these are the matters this
book includes. Dr. Mack demonstrates that the investigations of a
skilled clinician, exploring human consciousness through in-depth
conversations, can reveal to us a multidimensional, apparently
intelligent, cosmos whose nature is fundamentally consistent with
the discoveries of leading scientists who have been gaining
knowledge primarily through exploring the physical world.
John Mack explored alien encounter experiences deeply, revealing a
world of meaning and power that can revolutionize our understanding
of who we are and our place in the cosmos. Dr. Mack suggests that
such experiences reveal to us a universe which is filled with
intelligence and life, though this may not always take the densely
embodied form with which we are most familiar. This book brings us
to the edge of material reality and beyond, shattering the boundary
that has separated matter and spirit and scientific or spiritual
ways of knowing. Dr. Mack asks us to move beyond the largely
useless debate about whether UFOs or abductions are real in a
purely material sense. He shows us the limited way that we have
used ourselves in learning about the cosmos, and challenges the
limitations of traditional science as a way to learn about the
multi-dimensional world in which we reside. Insights about the
relationship between spiritual and physical energy; trauma's role
in transformation; information about the ecological crisis facing
the planet and the urgency that we do something about it; the
possibility that human beings are participating in the creation of
some sort of interdimensional hybrid race; the expansion of human
consciousness and our spiritual reawakening; and the apparent
evolution of extraordinary relationships that some human beings may
be developing beyond the earth plane - these are the matters this
book includes. Dr. Mack demonstrates that the investigations of a
skilled clinician, exploring human consciousness through in-depth
conversations, can reveal to us a multidimensional, apparently
intelligent, cosmos whose nature is fundamentally consistent with
the discoveries of leading scientists who have been gaining
knowledge primarily through exploring the physical world.
When this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography first appeared in 1976,
it rescued T. E. Lawrence from the mythologizing that had seemed to
be his fate. In it, John Mack humanely and objectively explores the
relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically
significant actions. Extensive interviews, far-flung
correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished
letters provide the basis for Mack's sensitive investigation of the
psychiatric dimensions of Lawrence's personality. In addition, Mack
examines the pertinent history, politics, and sociology of the time
in order to weigh the real forces with which Lawrence contended and
which impinged upon him.
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