"Ambitious, textured, and elegant... This book is a tour de force demonstration of how one can indeed carry out a study of the whole person in all his or her complexity. Highly recommended." Choice

• Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Challenging the prevailing view; 2. Affect, human development, and dynamic systems; Part II. Emotion as the Integrative Link in Social and Personality Development: 3. Lives attracted to shame and longing: Rogers; 4. Lives repelled by fear and distress: Ellis; 5. Lives repelled and attracted by contempt and shame: Perls; Part III. Emotion as the Link in Intellectual Work: 6. Wisdom and passion; 7. Cognitive stages and joy, surprise: Rogers; 8. Cartesian logic and anger, fear: Ellis; 9. Dialectical logic and excitement, disgust and shame: Perls; Part IV. Emotion as the Link in Therapeutic Behavior: 10. Postures and climate in dyadic interaction; Part V. Presenting a New View: 11. Summarizing the emotional links; 12. Lives and change: emotional energy in linear, complex, and chaotic personality systems.

"Ambitious, textured, and elegant... This book is a tour de force demonstration of how one can indeed carry out a study of the whole person in all his or her complexity. Highly recommended." Choice

• Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Challenging the prevailing view; 2. Affect, human development, and dynamic systems; Part II. Emotion as the Integrative Link in Social and Personality Development: 3. Lives attracted to shame and longing: Rogers; 4. Lives repelled by fear and distress: Ellis; 5. Lives repelled and attracted by contempt and shame: Perls; Part III. Emotion as the Link in Intellectual Work: 6. Wisdom and passion; 7. Cognitive stages and joy, surprise: Rogers; 8. Cartesian logic and anger, fear: Ellis; 9. Dialectical logic and excitement, disgust and shame: Perls; Part IV. Emotion as the Link in Therapeutic Behavior: 10. Postures and climate in dyadic interaction; Part V. Presenting a New View: 11. Summarizing the emotional links; 12. Lives and change: emotional energy in linear, complex, and chaotic personality systems.

"Ambitious, textured, and elegant... This book is a tour de force demonstration of how one can indeed carry out a study of the whole person in all his or her complexity. Highly recommended." Choice

• Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Challenging the prevailing view; 2. Affect, human development, and dynamic systems; Part II. Emotion as the Integrative Link in Social and Personality Development: 3. Lives attracted to shame and longing: Rogers; 4. Lives repelled by fear and distress: Ellis; 5. Lives repelled and attracted by contempt and shame: Perls; Part III. Emotion as the Link in Intellectual Work: 6. Wisdom and passion; 7. Cognitive stages and joy, surprise: Rogers; 8. Cartesian logic and anger, fear: Ellis; 9. Dialectical logic and excitement, disgust and shame: Perls; Part IV. Emotion as the Link in Therapeutic Behavior: 10. Postures and climate in dyadic interaction; Part V. Presenting a New View: 11. Summarizing the emotional links; 12. Lives and change: emotional energy in linear, complex, and chaotic personality systems.