Taking Charge of Your Emotions

Often we dont understand why we feel the way we do and why we act the way we do. Taking Charge of Your Emotions: A Guide to Better Psychological Health and Well-Being will put you on the road to being in charge of yourself. The authors provide specific strategies like disputing irrational beliefs which will guide you. A book well worth reading. -- Nancy K. Schlossberg, Professor Emerita, University of Maryland and author of 9 books including Revitalizing Retirement: Reshaping Your Identity, Relationships, and Purpose Taking Charge of Your Emotions teaches how to understand who you are and how to create healthy connections to others. Dr. Primavera and Dr. Pascale have deftly untangled the complex aspects of human emotions, behavior and theory into a straightforward, gratifying read -- chock-full with valuable tips and meaningful approaches. The wisdom gained from their many years of being social scientists is evident on each and every page. -- Deborah Serani, PsyD, Professor at Adelphi University and author of Living with Depression

Louis H. Primavera, PhD, is a New York State Licensed Psychologist trained in behavior and rational emotive behavior therapies, and maintained a private practice for more than twenty-five years specializing in marriage counseling. Primavera is currently the Dean of the School of Health Sciences at Touro College. Previously he was the Dean of the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University, held the Department Chair and served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at St. Johns University, and has held full time faculty positions at Hofstra University, St. Francis College, and Molloy College. Primavera has published extensively in the social sciences, and his work has appeared in a number of prestigious professional journals in Psychology. He was a consultant to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and has held a number of other consulting positions in medicine, business, and education. He has been a member of a number of professional organizations and has served as President of the Academic Division of the New York State Psychological Association, and the New York City Metro Chapter of the American Statistical Association. Rob Pascale, PhD, founded Marketing Analysts, Inc, a quantitative market research company, in 1982. Pascale retired from full time responsibilities at MAi in 2005 at the age of 51. Throughout his 25-year tenure as president of MAi, Pascale was directly involved in over 5000 research studies for more than 50 of the largest corporations in the world, and has polled well over 2 million consumers.

Introduction 1: Understanding People 2: The Four Psychological Functions 3: Beliefs, Emotions, Conscious and Unconscious Functioning 4: More about Understanding People 5: The Basics of Taking Control 6: Changing Your Thinking Patterns 7: Interpersonal Relationships 8: Effective Communication 9: Handling Difficult Interactions 10: Developing and Fine-Tuning Your Skills Appendix: Recommended Readings