Emotions category: 2464 books

Tired of hiding who you really are because you feel you're not good enough?Fed up of giving up, giving in and giving yourself away?You may have lived a lifetime of not feeling good enough, judging yourself harshly, feeling fearful, shamed, powerless or discouraged. You may be tired of comparing...

Orlandini trata todas, o casi todas, las manifestaciones del enamoramiento, para lo cual se apoya en las autoridades que lo han descrito, opinado al respecto, condenado, alabado o analizado, desmenuzándolo en infinidad de partes. La obra incluye un "glosario del amor", ordenado alfabéticamente...

Elsa Punset, experta en inteligencia emocional, nos ayuda a entender nuestras emociones, a enfrentarlas y a transformarlas en nuevas oportunidades de cambio. Elsa Punset nos habla en este pack del impacto de las emociones en la vida diaria. «Siempre quise arrancar las emociones del campo académico,...

Los relatos hablan del miedo, el dolor y la esperanza. Una bailarina debe aceptar que sus días en el escenario terminaron; un joven se enfrenta a la pérdida de sus padres; un escritor sufre un bloqueo narrativo crónico; la jubilación llega para un importante hombre de negocios… Irvin D. Yalom...

Una crónica visionaria de soñadores, adictos y almas perdidas. Un joven presiente que el coche que lo acaba de recoger va a sufrir un accidente; en otro relato se salva de una sobredosis, y más tarde ve morir a un amigo. En estos once relatos breves protagonizados por seres desorientados...

Desde la concepción de la relación de pareja como un viaje maravilloso, en la primera parte de esta obra, Antes de emprender el viaje , se desarrolla el tema de las condiciones esenciales para iniciar la travesía. En la segunda, "mar adentro", se proponen herramientas prácticas que facilitan...

What exactly is happiness? Can we measure it? Why are some people happy and others not? And is there a drug that could eliminate all unhappiness? People all over the world, and throughout the ages, have thought about happiness, argued about its nature, and, most of all, desired it. But why do we have...

The celebrated author of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life delivers a unique look at happiness, sharing a Jungian approach to finding a fearless, authentic path. Why are we here? What is the meaning of existence? What truly matters the most in life? To even begin to answer these questions,...

Does happiness matter? What are happy people like? Can people enhance their sense of well-being? One of the most important movements in psychology during the past two decades, positive psychology is a discipline that seeks to understand the factors that contribute the most to a well lived and fulfilling...

Desires matter. What are desires? Many believe that desire is a motivational state: desiring is being disposed to act. This conception aligns with the functionalist approach to desire and the standard account of desire's role in explaining action. According to a second influential approach, however,...

"I highly recommend [A Bright Red Scream], because it’s beautifully written and . . . so candid.” —Amy Adams, star of HBO's Sharp Objects in Entertainment Weekly Self-mutilation is a behavior so shocking that it is almost never discussed. Yet estimates are that upwards of eight million...

Approaching the topic from a social psychological viewpoint, this book provides a forum for some currently active theorists to provide concise descriptions of their models in a way that addresses four of the most central issues in the field: How does affect influence memory, judgment, information...

Someone pushes your buttons . . . you feel rage . . . fear . . . sweaty palms . . . unbidden tears . . . you feel like a kid . . . We've all experienced moments when we lose control of a situation and ourselves. Now, in Growing Yourself Back Up, the first book to explain the idea of emotional...

The classic guide to what makes people survivors, now in a revised and updated new edition. Who survives? Who thrives? As a psychologist who spent more than forty years studying the phenomenon of survival, Al Siebert gained valuable insight into the qualities and habits that help human beings...