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Book SynopsisWhat do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources – spiritual and secular literature, iconography, chronicles, as well as theological and medical works – provide clues to the central role emotions played in medieval society. In this work, historians Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy delve into a rich variety of texts and images to reveal the many and nuanced experiences of emotion during the Middle Ages – from the demonstrative shame of a saint to a nobleman's fear of embarrassment, from the enthusiasm of a crusading band to the fear of a town threatened by the approach of war or plague. Boquet and Nagy show how these outbursts of joy and pain, while universal expressions, must be understood within the specific context of medieval society. During the Middle Ages, a Christian model of affectivity was formed in the ‘laboratory’ of the monasteries, one which gradually seeped into wider society, interacting with the sensibilities of courtly culture and other forms of expression. Bouqet and Nagy bring a thousand years of history to life, demonstrating how the study of emotions in medieval society can also allow us to understand better our own social outlooks and customs.Trade Review‘This pathbreaking book, from two pioneer researchers on the history of emotions, tracks the unfolding of a gradual “emotional revolution,” beginning in late antiquity, that slowly transformed medieval society from top to bottom. An ancient ideal of calm self-control was supplanted by a vision of God and human beings bound together by emotional, even passionate, relationships. Every dimension of social life is brought into the story, from religion to politics, to gender, to popular culture, building a new understanding of the medieval world that sweeps aside the all-too-resilient clichés of Johan Huizinga and Norbert Elias.’ William M. Reddy, Duke UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: The Christianization of Emotion (third to fifth centuries) The theology of emotion An emotional God God’s wrath: a proof of his existence God is love Passion incarnate The anthropology of emotion The Christian passions Augustine: father of medieval affectivity Sin and punishment A new order of humanity Chapter 2: The City of Desire: The Monastic Laboratory The desert: from the care of the body to the care of the soul The bad thoughts of Evagrius of Pontus Cassian and the foundations of community: from charity to virtuous friendship Affective conversion in Western monasticism Monastic norms for converting the emotions Gregory the Great and sacrificial emotion Chapter 3: Emotions for a Christian Society: The Frankish World (fifth to tenth centuries) The early Middle Ages: a fragmented age? Emotional bonds Amicitia / inimicitia And what of women in all of this? The rise of heavenly emotions New forms of lay devotion Moral teaching The Carolingian vision of society: unity in love Chapter 4: The Zenith of Monastic Affection The origins of affective renewal A compassionate eremitism The privilege of love: fraternal affection amongst an ascetic elite The affective reform of monasticism and the Church. Friendship as the practice of conversion: Anselm of Canterbury The expansion of love’s domain Passionate charity as spiritual nature Ordering the emotions Sensitive pieties The world as horizon: spiritual friendship and fraternal charity in the twelfth century Chapter 5: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Aristocratic Emotions in Feudal Society (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) The emotional order of feudal society A society of spectacle Revolutions of love The loving couple and its twin The naturalization of love The impossible innamoramento of same-sex lovers Literary emotions and aristocratic values Epic emotions Looking upon another, another looking upon oneself: jealousy and shame Chapter 6: The Emotive Nature of Man (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) A prelude: the controversy over the ‘first movements of the soul’ Accidents of the soul and of the heart: the medical science of emotion The emotional mechanism Emotions and healthy living Remedies for melancholy Monastic anthropology in the twelfth century: the challenges of a spiritual psychology Affect as a power of the soul For better or for worse: the affective union of body and soul Towards a university science of the passions of the soul: the thirteenth century Emotions and individuals between psychology and morality: the early thirteenth century John of La Rochelle: the turning point of scholastic anthropology Thomas Aquinas: a psychological science of the passions Chapter 7: The Politics of Princely Emotion (twelfth to fifteenth centuries) Sovereign emotion From the political body to the princely body, and back again. The prince in the mirror of his emotions The emotional portrait of St. Louis Governing through emotion Ira regis Anger as verdict: the murder of Thomas Beckett. Casting shame and being ashamed Negotiating emotions Sovereignty and the transformation of political emotion: the example of friendship Emotion as a political event ‘To cry is to govern’ Chapter 8: The Mystical Conquest of Emotion (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) The cultural roots of ‘affective mysticism’ The Gregorian renewal of theology and the anthropology of religious practices Religious fervour: a collective emotion Francis of Assisi and the revolution of embodied emotion The experience of pious women Vision, imagination and embodiment: paths towards union with the suffering of Christ The sacramental ‘emotive’: the emotional navigation of mystics The emotional incarnation of the sacred: gender and society Epilogue: the devotio moderna and the softening of affective piety Chapter 9: Common Emotion (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) The public sharing of performative emotions Emotion and violence: popular movements Settling conflicts through the sharing of emotion Emotions and social identities When emotions expressed communities Excluding through emotion: fomenting hatred The ‘pastoral of emotions’ The scholastic theory of emotional education Emotional rhetoric: the manufacture of laughter and shame The scripting of emotional persuasion Conclusion Notes Bibliography Figure credits Index

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Book SynopsisIn this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. He argues that happiness is now defined by a desire to be "authentic", to experience physical pleasure, and to cultivate a quirky individuality. But over the last fifty years, these once-revolutionary ideas have been co-opted by corporations and advertisers, pushing us to live lives that are increasingly unfulfilling, insecure and narcissistic. In an age of increasing austerity and social division, Cederström argues that a radical new dream of happiness is gathering pace. There is a vision of the good life which promotes deeper engagement with the world and our place within it, over the individualism and hedonism of previous generations. Guided by this more egalitarian worldview, we can reinvent ourselves and our societies.Trade Review"Happiness is big business - and big politics - these days. But as Cederstrom shows in this sharp and engaging book, its recent history can be disturbing. Combining humor with a much-needed skepticism, he shows that in a world of happiness, not all is smiles."—Darrin M. McMahon, author of Happiness: A History "In this lively and acerbic book, Carl Cederstrom provides a compelling history of how a particular psychoanalytic ideal of happiness sucked us in, promising total fulfillment but ultimately trapping us in a lie."—Will Davies, Goldsmiths, University of London "Pleasure was at the heart of the liberation struggles of the 1960s' but has morphed into a new form of ideology and tyranny, fed by the capitalist logic of incessant consumption. The happy self is not only a fantasy, an imperative to fulfill our potential, but also the impulse behind a wide variety of economic enterprises, orgasmic workshops, drugs, therapies, etc. Cedertrom's The Happiness Fantasy is a well-written, lively, and critical study of the fantasy that has wormed inside the core of our culture."—Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "A wonderful piece of work."—Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research "With compelling clarity, wit and wisdom, Carl Cederström cuts through the disabling illusions ceaselessly promoting the personal pursuit of happiness, offering instead an altogether richer, more compassionate, embrace of life and its vicissitudes."—Lynne Segal, author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy "wise and witty"—The IndependentTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 The Birth of the Happiness Fantasy: In Bed with Wilhelm Reich 2 Compulsory Narcissism: Happiness in an Age of Precariousness 3 Happiness Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of the Happiness Fantasy 4 Happiness Drugs: From Space-Age Mysticism to Productivity Enhancement 5 Pleasure: A Distinctly Male Fantasy Conclusion: Happiness after Trump Notes

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Book SynopsisIn this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederström traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. He argues that happiness is now defined by a desire to be "authentic", to experience physical pleasure, and to cultivate a quirky individuality. But over the last fifty years, these once-revolutionary ideas have been co-opted by corporations and advertisers, pushing us to live lives that are increasingly unfulfilling, insecure and narcissistic. In an age of increasing austerity and social division, Cederström argues that a radical new dream of happiness is gathering pace. There is a vision of the good life which promotes deeper engagement with the world and our place within it, over the individualism and hedonism of previous generations. Guided by this more egalitarian worldview, we can reinvent ourselves and our societies.Trade Review"Happiness is big business - and big politics - these days. But as Cederstrom shows in this sharp and engaging book, its recent history can be disturbing. Combining humor with a much-needed skepticism, he shows that in a world of happiness, not all is smiles."—Darrin M. McMahon, author of Happiness: A History "In this lively and acerbic book, Carl Cederstrom provides a compelling history of how a particular psychoanalytic ideal of happiness sucked us in, promising total fulfillment but ultimately trapping us in a lie."—Will Davies, Goldsmiths, University of London "Pleasure was at the heart of the liberation struggles of the 1960s' but has morphed into a new form of ideology and tyranny, fed by the capitalist logic of incessant consumption. The happy self is not only a fantasy, an imperative to fulfill our potential, but also the impulse behind a wide variety of economic enterprises, orgasmic workshops, drugs, therapies, etc. Cedertrom's The Happiness Fantasy is a well-written, lively, and critical study of the fantasy that has wormed inside the core of our culture."—Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "A wonderful piece of work."—Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research "With compelling clarity, wit and wisdom, Carl Cederström cuts through the disabling illusions ceaselessly promoting the personal pursuit of happiness, offering instead an altogether richer, more compassionate, embrace of life and its vicissitudes."—Lynne Segal, author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy "wise and witty"—The IndependentTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 The Birth of the Happiness Fantasy: In Bed with Wilhelm Reich 2 Compulsory Narcissism: Happiness in an Age of Precariousness 3 Happiness Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of the Happiness Fantasy 4 Happiness Drugs: From Space-Age Mysticism to Productivity Enhancement 5 Pleasure: A Distinctly Male Fantasy Conclusion: Happiness after Trump Notes

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Book SynopsisRacism, extremism, anti-democratic sentiment – our increasingly polarized world is dominated by a type of thinking that doubts others’ positions but never its own. In a powerful challenge to fundamentalism in all its forms, Carolin Emcke, one of Germany’s leading intellectuals, argues that we can only preserve individual freedom and protect people’s rights by cherishing and celebrating diversity. If we want to safeguard democracy, we must have the courage to challenge hatred and the will to fight for and defend plurality in our societies. Emcke rises to the challenge that identitarian dogmas and populist narratives pose, exposing the way in which they simplify and distort our perception of the world. Against Hate is an impassioned call to fight intolerance and defend liberal ideals. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the darkening politics of our time and searching for ways forward.Trade Review‘With exemplary lucidity, passion and brevity, Carolin Emcke anatomizes a toxic political emotion – and the many insidious, even benign, forms it increasingly assumes in public life. Against Hate is an urgent and necessary book, and all those who seek a way out of our current impasse should read it.’Pankaj Mishra ‘At a time when, all over the globe, groups have mobilized around hatred of strangers, foreigners, migrants and refugees, Emcke analyses with subtlety and psychological precision the hearts and minds of those who hate. A must-read book for our times.’Seyla Benhabib, Yale University ‘Against Hate is a heartfelt and powerful argument for the defence of a democratic, pluralist society that not only tolerates but also welcomes otherness. There’s no mistaking its timeliness.’ John Foster, Medium Table of ContentsForeword 1. Visible, Invisible Love Hope Worry Hatred and Contempt, Part 1: Group-focused Hostility (Clausnitz, Saxony) Hatred and Contempt, Part 2: Institutional Racism (Staten Island, New York) 2. Homogeneous – Natural – PureHomogeneous Original, Natural Pure 3. In Praise of the Impure Postscript Notes

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Book SynopsisHow the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days—or weeks, or months, or even years—being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening. In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional terrain of trans survival. Trans structures of feeling are frequently coded as negative on both sides of transition. Before transition, narratives are framed in terms of childhood trauma and being in the “wrong body.” Posttransition, trans individuals—especially trans people of color—are subject to unrelenting transantagonism. Yet trans individuals are discouraged from displaying or admitting to despondency or despair. By moving these unloved feelings to the center of trans experience, Side Affects proposes an affective trans commons that exists outside political debates about inclusion. Acknowledging such powerful and elided feelings as anger and exhaustion, Malatino contends, is critical to motivating justice-oriented advocacy and organizing—and recalibrating new possibilities for survival and well-being.Trade Review "Hil Malatino has become an indispensable thinker when it comes to trans scholarship, somehow able to put into words not just ideas but feelings that I had previously found ineffable and unspeakable, a talent that is familiar to me from the very best of literature."—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby "Down with the narrative tyranny of gender dysphoria and euphoria! Side Affects dares invoke a trans right to feel bad, not as antidote to normativity but as a portal to the complex feelings of transition that have been buried by medicalization, activist urgency, and the collateral damage of transphobia. Hil Malatino delivers a powerful trans reckoning for feminist, queer, and affect studies."—Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child "Overall, it’s an amazingly informative publication that I’m certain will enlighten many people in academia, trans, or otherwise."—neowitcher reads "Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad, rejects the sanitized narratives of the moral and intellectual purity of transness meant to please the cis gaze. Instead, it delves into a conversation around the trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling, fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia as a way to map the emotional terrain of trans survival."—Shondaland "The book provides an insider's view of the bleaker and more frustrating aspects of transition, too often downplayed since transgender people were forcibly enlisted as combatants in the so-called culture wars."—Boston Review "Malatino’s argument is firmly grounded in current trans, queer, and feminist theory, while it invokes the methods of poststructural critique and phenomenological interrogation."—CHOICE "Reading Hil Malatino’s Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad offered me permission to see my life and the terror of this current political moment with more honesty."—X-Tra

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Book SynopsisAn intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief To grieve after a profound loss is perfectly natural and healthy. To be debilitated by grief for more than a decade, as Andrea Gilats was, is something else. In her candid, deeply moving, and ultimately helpful memoir of breaking free of death’s relentless grip on her life, Gilats tells her story of living with prolonged, or “complicated,” grief and offers insight, hope, and guidance to others who suffer as she did. Thomas Dayton, Andrea Gilats’s husband of twenty years, died at 52 after a five-month battle with cancer. In After Effects Gilats describes the desolation that followed and the slow and torturous twenty-year journey that brought her back to life. In the two years immediately following his death, Gilats wrote Tom daily letters, desperately trying to maintain the twenty-year conversation of their marriage. Excerpts from these letters reveal the depth of her despair but also the glimmer of an awakening as they also trace a different, more typical course of the grief experienced by one of Gilats's colleagues, also widowed. Gilats’s struggle to rescue herself takes her through the temptation of suicide, the threat of deadly illness, the overwhelming challenges of work, and the rigor of learning and eventually teaching yoga, to a moment of reckoning and, finally, reconciliation to a life without her beloved partner. Her story is informed by the lessons she learned about complicated grief as a disorder that, while intensely personal, can be defined, grappled with, and overcome.Though complicated grief affects as many as one in seven of those stricken by the loss of a close loved one, it is little known outside professional circles. After Effects points toward a path of recuperation and provides solace along the way—a service and a comfort that is all the more timely and necessary in our pandemic-ravaged world of loss and isolation.Trade Review "I am enormously grateful that the world is finally welcoming a deeper and more complex understanding about grief and grieving. Andrea Gilats makes a vital contribution with this honest account of her husband’s death and her long journey through complicated grief to arrive at her hard-won ‘fringes of happiness.’"—Judith Barrington, best-selling author of Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art* "Andrea Gilats has given us a beautifully written story of the heartbreaking problem of complicated grief that is now officially called prolonged grief disorder. Her detailed, honest account of almost two decades of intense suffering after the loss of her beloved life partner will help others understand that there is no shame in grieving in this way—that grief is a form of love. Importantly, though, there are ways to gently guide people like Andrea much sooner in the process to find ways to honor the deceased as well as the life of the bereaved they leave behind."—M. Katherine Shear, M.D., founder and director, Columbia University Center for Prolonged Grief* "In this illuminating, thoughtful and beautifully written memoir, Gilats takes us on her journey as she experienced, for 10 years, prolonged or “complicated” grief... When you finish the last paragraph you are going to think, “I’d like to meet this woman.” "—St. Paul Pioneer Press "Gilats’ story of loss, despair and eventual peace is a roadmap of despair and recovery... A brave memoir indeed!"—Minneapolis Star Tribune "Grief can be disorienting, overwhelming, and unpredictable, but rarely is it as long lasting as that described by Andrea Gilats in her moving and painful book."—Minnesota Alumni

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Book SynopsisExamines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In The Affect Lab, Grant Bollmer examines the use of measurement tools such as electrical shocks, photography, video, and the electroencephalograph to argue that research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription. Bollmer shows that the psychological definitions of emotion have long been directly shaped by the physical qualities of the devices used in laboratory research. To investigate these devices, The Affect Lab examines four technologies related to the history of psychology in North America: spiritualist toys at Harvard University, serial photography in early American psychological laboratories, experiments on “psychopaths” performed with an instrument called an Offner Dynograph, and the development of the “electropsychometer,” or “E-Meter,” by Volney Mathison and L. Ron Hubbard. Challenging the large body of humanities research surrounding affect theory, The Affect Lab identifies an understudied problem in formulations of affect: how affect is a construction inseparable from the techniques and devices used to identify and measure it. Ultimately, Bollmer offers a new critique of affect and affect theory, demonstrating how deferrals to psychology and neuroscience in contemporary theory and philosophy neglect the material of experimental, scientific research. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "Moving compellingly through a series of instruments drawn from the histories of experimental psychology, psychiatric photography, and spiritualism, Grant Bollmer provides an important materialist rebuke to the liberatory strain in affect theory, which frequently treats affect as ‘an eternal truth of the body rather than a momentary fragment.’"—David Parisi, author of Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing "The Affect Lab argues that beneath affect theory lies media. Far from being natural or biological—and, most fundamentally, far from being universal—affect is the product of the concrete technical operations that are necessary to access it in the first place. By challenging affect theory to examine its own technical basis, The Affect Lab will reboot the field for our times and, in the process, fundamentally change our views of how affect operates and the roles it plays in lived experience."—Mark B. N. Hansen, author of Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media Table of Contents Contents Introduction: Techniques of the Affect Lab 1. William James’s Planchette 2. Books of Faces 3. The Prison Dynograph 4. E-Meter Metaphysics Conclusion: The Epistemology and Aesthetics of Empathy Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasise about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into solitude and singlemindedness, almost like latter-day monks. But although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. As historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates in The Wandering Mind, their attempts to stretch the mind out to God—to continuously contemplate the divine order and its ethical requirements—were all-consuming, and their battles against distraction were never-ending. Delving into the experiences of early Christian monks living in the Middle East, around the Mediterranean, and throughout Europe from 300 to 900 CE, Kreiner shows that these men and women were obsessed with distraction in ways that seem remarkably modern. At the same time, she suggests that our own obsession is remarkably medieval. Ancient Greek and Roman intellectuals had sometimes complained about distraction, but it was early Christian monks who waged an all-out war against it. The stakes could not have been higher: they saw distraction as a matter of life and death. Even though the world today is vastly different from the world of the early Middle Ages, we can still learn something about our own distractedness by looking closely at monks’ strenuous efforts to concentrate. Drawing on a trove of sources that the monks left behind, Kreiner reconstructs the techniques they devised in their lifelong quest to master their minds—from regimented work schedules and elaborative metacognitive exercises to physical regimens for hygiene, sleep, sex and diet. She captures the fleeting moments of pure attentiveness that some monks managed to grasp, and the many times when monks struggled and failed and went back to the drawing board. Blending history and psychology, The Wandering Mind is a witty, illuminating account of human fallibility and ingenuity that bridges a distant era and our own.Trade Review"A life of prayer and seclusion has never meant a life without distraction. As Jamie Kreiner puts it in her new book, [The Wandering Mind], the monks of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (around A.D. 300 to 900) struggled mightily with attention....Charming. . . [Kreiner uses] the cultural obsession with distractibility to train our focus elsewhere, guiding us from the starting point of our own preoccupations to a greater understanding of how monks lived." -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times"A lucid and vivid examination of how early Christian monks created habits of contemplation to 'connect their minds to God,' opening 'panoramic vistas of the universe that transcended both space and time.' Ms. Kreiner, a professor of medieval history at the University of Georgia, also shares intriguing perspectives on our own values and priorities....[The Wandering Mind] focuses on more than the past, and its implications demand our attention." -- Dominic Green - The Wall Street Journal"compelling, beautifully written and often amusing" -- Anna Katharina Schaffner - The Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisAdverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may include major disruptive events (e.g. earthquakes, hurricanes, or floods), but more pervasive is the impact of the daily stress of coping with one of more of the facets of family challenges (e.g. economic hardship and its attendant issues) or even dysfunction (e.g. parent or guardian divorce or separation, or living with neglectful or abusive parents). The use of the term Pervasive is warranted. For example, as highlighted in the Introduction, a 2019 study of the findings emerging from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health found that, among the more than 45,000 children on whom parents reported data, more than one-fifth experienced economic hardship and parent/guardian divorce.The consequences for educators of children exposed to ACEs are far-reaching and have galvanized the attention of a broad swath of educational researchers and practitioners. As discussed in a 2019 insightful five-part series in Education Week (https://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/trauma-sensitive-schools/index.html), the consequences include the imperativefor teachers and educational leaders to adopt an informed approach to alleviating the educational impact of ACEs on their students while making provision for their own well-being. In this volume, various authors explore the educational context of ACEs and describe and reflect on their research-inspired endeavors to integrate the resources of schools, universities, and communities to sustain a safe and supportive educational environment for and build the resilience of all students.Table of Contents Introduction. North Carolina Resilience and Learning Project, Katie Rosanbalm, Elizabeth DeKonty, and Sheronda Fleming. Trauma-Informed Partnering, Jack Leonard. Our SchoolBehavioral Health “Y’Alliance”: The Development of a Rural School–Community–University Collaboration Focused on Supporting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma, Travis Lewis, Karen D. Jones, Karen Koch, Kia Glosson, and Karen Harrington. Pedagogy and Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Teacher’s Action-Learning Journey in Mitigating the Impact of Trauma Through Changing Teaching Practice, Michelle Montgomery, Roberto H. Parada, and Brenda Dobia. Systemic School Reform Partnership to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences in Flint, Michigan, Bryan Beverly, Nicole Ellefson, and Brian J. Boggs. River of Emotions: Reflecting on a University–School–Community Partnership to Support Children’s Emotional Processing in a Post-Disaster Context, Carol Mutch, Jason Miles, and Sarah Yates. Increasing Trauma-Informed Practices in a HighPoverty Elementary School: A School, University, and Community Partnership, Betty V. DeBoer and Alyssa M. Boardman. Schoolwide Trauma Informed Professional Development: We Can! Building Relationships and Resilience, Armeda Stevenson Wojciak, Jan Powers, and Laura Medberry. An Integrated Approach to Mitigating Adverse Childhood Experiences Through Trauma-Informed Yoga, Lauren Dotson Davis and Rebecca Buchanan. Bridging Education and Neuroscience to Support Transformation in Teaching and Learning: A Design-Based Approach,Alison Wishard Guerra, Shana R. Cohen, Amanda Datnow, Timothy Brown, Terry Jernigan, Matt Doyle, and Alan Daly. Coalescing Streams: Interrupting the Progression of Adversity Through Cross-Sector Mobilization and Systems Alignment, John T. King, Aprille Phillips, Todd Bloomquist, and Peter Buckley. A Research-Practice Partnership Serving Students Experiencing Trauma: BestPractices Revealed by an Investigation of a Dropout Prevention Alternative School, Nicole Ralston, Rebecca Smith, Cara Megan Wright, and Jacqueline Waggoner. Creating Holistic Trauma-InformedSchools: School-Based Health Centers, Sherry Shamblin, Dawn Graham, and Erin Lucas. About the Contributors.

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Book SynopsisAdverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may include major disruptive events (e.g. earthquakes, hurricanes, or floods), but more pervasive is the impact of the daily stress of coping with one of more of the facets of family challenges (e.g. economic hardship and its attendant issues) or even dysfunction (e.g. parent or guardian divorce or separation, or living with neglectful or abusive parents). The use of the term Pervasive is warranted. For example, as highlighted in the Introduction, a 2019 study of the findings emerging from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health found that, among the more than 45,000 children on whom parents reported data, more than one-fifth experienced economic hardship and parent/guardian divorce.The consequences for educators of children exposed to ACEs are far-reaching and have galvanized the attention of a broad swath of educational researchers and practitioners. As discussed in a 2019 insightful five-part series in Education Week (https://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/trauma-sensitive-schools/index.html), the consequences include the imperativefor teachers and educational leaders to adopt an informed approach to alleviating the educational impact of ACEs on their students while making provision for their own well-being. In this volume, various authors explore the educational context of ACEs and describe and reflect on their research-inspired endeavors to integrate the resources of schools, universities, and communities to sustain a safe and supportive educational environment for and build the resilience of all students.Table of Contents Introduction. North Carolina Resilience and Learning Project, Katie Rosanbalm, Elizabeth DeKonty, and Sheronda Fleming. Trauma-Informed Partnering, Jack Leonard. Our SchoolBehavioral Health “Y’Alliance”: The Development of a Rural School–Community–University Collaboration Focused on Supporting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma, Travis Lewis, Karen D. Jones, Karen Koch, Kia Glosson, and Karen Harrington. Pedagogy and Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Teacher’s Action-Learning Journey in Mitigating the Impact of Trauma Through Changing Teaching Practice, Michelle Montgomery, Roberto H. Parada, and Brenda Dobia. Systemic School Reform Partnership to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences in Flint, Michigan, Bryan Beverly, Nicole Ellefson, and Brian J. Boggs. River of Emotions: Reflecting on a University–School–Community Partnership to Support Children’s Emotional Processing in a Post-Disaster Context, Carol Mutch, Jason Miles, and Sarah Yates. Increasing Trauma-Informed Practices in a HighPoverty Elementary School: A School, University, and Community Partnership, Betty V. DeBoer and Alyssa M. Boardman. Schoolwide Trauma Informed Professional Development: We Can! Building Relationships and Resilience, Armeda Stevenson Wojciak, Jan Powers, and Laura Medberry. An Integrated Approach to Mitigating Adverse Childhood Experiences Through Trauma-Informed Yoga, Lauren Dotson Davis and Rebecca Buchanan. Bridging Education and Neuroscience to Support Transformation in Teaching and Learning: A Design-Based Approach,Alison Wishard Guerra, Shana R. Cohen, Amanda Datnow, Timothy Brown, Terry Jernigan, Matt Doyle, and Alan Daly. Coalescing Streams: Interrupting the Progression of Adversity Through Cross-Sector Mobilization and Systems Alignment, John T. King, Aprille Phillips, Todd Bloomquist, and Peter Buckley. A Research-Practice Partnership Serving Students Experiencing Trauma: BestPractices Revealed by an Investigation of a Dropout Prevention Alternative School, Nicole Ralston, Rebecca Smith, Cara Megan Wright, and Jacqueline Waggoner. Creating Holistic Trauma-InformedSchools: School-Based Health Centers, Sherry Shamblin, Dawn Graham, and Erin Lucas. About the Contributors.

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Book SynopsisEmotional intelligence is the capability to recognize, use and manage one's own emotions and those of others. The use of emotional information guides thinking and behaviour, allowing adjustment of emotions to adapt to environments. As tourism and hospitality services are produced and consumed simultaneously, with a high level of contact between employees and customers, the development of emotional intelligence of employees in tourism and hospitality establishments is vital. This book has a skills-based approach and explains how emotional intelligence can be developed in tourism and hospitality students and employees. Key features: A foreword by Gill Hasson The first tourism and hospitality book to describe emotional intelligence Covers all major literature, concepts, theories and research findings from the perspective of emotional intelligence. Includes exercises, end of chapter questions, practical examples, student aids and Powerpoint slides for each chapter that can be used in class by academicians and practitioners in their training sessions. The book is intended for use by tourism and hospitality students, researchers and practitioners.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to Emotional Intelligence in Tourism and Hospitality Chapter 2: Emotions and Developing Emotional Intelligence in Tourism and Hospitality Businesses Chapter 3: Measuring Emotional Intelligence in Tourism and Hospitality Chapter 4: Emotional Intelligence and Service Encounters Chapter 5: Development of Personal Expertise in Tourism and Hospitality Professions: Cognitive Knowledge, Personality and Learning Style Chapter 6: Emotional Intelligence and its Relationship with Personality, Gender, Age and Culture in Tourism and Hospitality Chapter 7: Developing Intercultural Sensitivity as an Emotional Ability Chapter 8: Service Quality and Emotional Intelligence Chapter 9: Service Failures, Recovery and Emotional Intelligence Chapter 10: Mystery of Spiritual Intelligence: Predictions, Prophecies and Possibilities

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Book SynopsisThis volume is comprised of contributions to the 67th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which brought together various research disciplines such as psychology, education, health sciences, natural resources, environmental studies to investigate the ways in which nature influences cognition, health, human behavior, and well-being. The symposium is positioned to explore two proposed mechanisms in the most depth: 1) the psycho-evolutionary theory of stress recovery and 2) Attention Restoration Theory. The contributions in the volume represent research guided by both of these posited mechanisms, rigorously examine these theories and processes, and share methodological innovations that can be utilized across programs of research. This volume will be of great interest to researchers on natural environments, practitioners and clinicians working with an environmental lens at the intersection of psychology, social work, education and the health sciences, as well as researchers and students in environmental and conservation psychology. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Nature and Attention.- Chapter 3. The Natural-Built Distinction in Environmental Preference and Restoration: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Explanations.- Chapter 4. An Environmental Neuroscience Perspective on the Benefits of Nature.- Chapter 5. Nature and Restoration: Beyond the Conventional Narrative.- Chapter 6. Knowing Nature in Childhood: Learning and Wellbeing through Engagement with the Natural World.- Chapter 7. The natural environment as a resilience factor: Nature’s role as a buffer of the effects of risk and adversity.- Chapter 8. Perceiving ‘Natural’ Environments: An Ecological Perspective with Reflections on the Chapters.

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Book SynopsisThis work informs by encouraging the reader to interact with the text itself and with the literature in the area. It is a learning tool rather than an encyclopaedic presentation of its topic. The writing style is personal, direct and accessible. Citations are employed, but always for specific purposes. Cited materials are made accessible whenever possible by the provision of URLs. Readers learn about emotion and its relationship to brain, body, cognition, memory, and appraisal. They are also introduced to the role of emotion in language and in the fine arts. Readers of Engaging with Emotion will likely be students within the first two years of university or college taking a related course, or those who are interested in learning more about emotion. This book is ideal for adaptation to an online course format as it includes exercises and learning guides. The book uses straightforward and helpful language and examples to avoid frustrating or confusing students, but instead to keep them actively involved with the material in the book, and to help motivated learners learn.Table of ContentsBook on Emotion-Working Outline (C. Whissell) ReadMe (Introduction) 1. Defining Emotion a. Dictionary definitions b. Use of emotion in early psychology theories c. Distinguishing emotion from mood d. Distinguishing emotion from personality e. A working definition for psychologists 2. Evolution of Emotion a. Darwin’s theory of evolution b. Darwin’s theory of emotion c. Is there a continuity of emotion between people and animals? d. A psycho-evolutionary theory combining Freud’s with Darwin’s theories e. Separating emotion from cognition 3. Development of Emotion a. Emotion in the first 6 months b. Emotion at age 2 c. Emotion at age 5 d. Emotion at age 12 e. Emotion in developmental theories 4. Emotion in the Face a. Experience versus expression of emotion b. Do we “read” our own faces? [facial feedback theory] c. Do we “read” the faces of others? [lie to me] d. Ekman’s evolutionary theory and FACS e. Blended expressions 5. Emotion in the Body a. The nervous system b. The autonomic nervous system c. The sympathetic nervous system d. The parasympathetic nervous system e. “Lie” detection and the autonomic nervous system 6. Emotion in the Brain a. A three-level model b. The brain stem c. The brain core d. The grey matter e. Examples: addiction and reward systems 7. Emotion and Memory a. The hippocampus b. Emotion tagging of memories c. Emotion, memory, and aging d. Remembering Mr. Smith e. Emotion and brain deterioration 8. Appraisal in Emotion a. “Automatized” emotion b. “Thought out” emotion c. Lazarus theory of appraisal d. When does appraisal enter the emotion process? e. Emotion is a continuous process 9. Emotion and Culture a. Innate and pancultural aspects b. Learned aspects c. Display rules d. Differences across historical time (diachronous) e. Differences among cultures (synchronous) 10. Emotion and Psychopathology a. Role of emotion in DSM 5 diagnoses b. Emotion and Anxiety c. Emotion and Depression d. Role of Emotion in psychotherapy e. Emotion in Positive Psychology 11. Measuring Emotion a. Scales the measure Depression b. Scales that measure Anxiety c. Scales that measure Aggression d. Scales that measure Happiness e. Scales that measure Optimism/Pessimism 12. Emotion in Language a. Words that describe specific emotions b. Words that have emotional connotations c. Sentiment analysis systems of different kinds d. The Dictionary of Affect in Language e. Examples of what the emotional tone of language reveals 13. Emotion in Art a. Emotion in music b. Emotion in dance c. Emotion in poetry d. Emotion in writing e. Emotion in visual arts 14. Theories of Emotion a. Revisiting evolutionary theory (Darwin, Plutchik, Ekman) b. Revisiting semantic lexical theory (Osgood, Russell, Whissell) c. Categorical approaches to emotion d. Dimensional approaches to emotion e. Conclusions about emotion Four learning exercises accompany every chapter 1. Learning objectives 2. Terminology 3. Why this citation? 4. Experiential Learning Elements

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Book SynopsisA creative lifestyle is not a luxury, but a necessary elixir of life. Only with creativity can we overcome despair, hatred and violence, in the world and in ourselves. Using selected examples of exceptionally creative people, Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla encourages us to unleash our own creative and social potential.Readers become acquainted with Madonna and Amy Winehouse, John Lennon, Jim Morrison, and Mick Jagger. Before wandering through their lives and work in the interplay of constructive and destructive forces, they encounter the "Big Five of Creativity": talent, ability, motivation, resilience, favorable environments. The author has theoretically researched their interaction over decades, tested them in practice and drawn the conclusion: The creative transformation of human destructiveness is our chance to lead a fulfilled life in social responsibility.Table of ContentsContents 1. Part: Creativity – Essence of LifeEveryday and Extraordinary CreativityHealth and EnjoymentFive Basic Principles of Creativity on the Example ofW. A. Mozart, J. W. v. Goethe, Clara Schumann, Pablo Picasso and Marie CurieThe Creative Process Creative Coping of Depression and Aggression 2. Part: TheCreative Transformation of Despair, Hate and Violence byOutstandingPop-Stars MadonnaCiccone: Dancing for LifeJohn Lennon: The Dreamer Amy Winehouse: The Fallen AngelJim Morrison: The Shaman Mick Jagger: Sympathy for the Devil 3. Part: Consequences for a Creative Life-Style

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Book SynopsisSientes que eres extremadamente sensible? Has tenido alguna relación tóxica? Te consideras un bicho raro? Sufres de ansiedad? En nuestro día a día nos encontramos con situaciones que nos generan sufrimiento y nos hacen creer que no encajamos con los demás.Cris Blanco, autora del pódcast Como si nadie escuchara, reflexiona en estas páginas, basándose siempre en su propia experiencia, sobre la salud mental, el amor, la autoestima, la amistad, las relaciones tóxicas, la vulnerabilidad y aquellas situaciones por las que todos transitamos, pero de las que nadie parece querer hablar.Tu mejor amiga eres tú te ayudará a entender que no eres perfecta, a construir relaciones sanas y a poner límites para obtener más confianza y libertad y ser tu versión más auténtica.Un libro para aceptarte, quererte y mejorar la relación contigo misma.

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Book SynopsisNo existe forma más amena, didáctica y sencilla de conocer los secretos de la psicología aplicada que con un texto que combina la narración con los más avanzados saberes de la psicoterapia contemporánea.Como ya lograron en su aclamado El aprendiz de farero , Javier Savin y Joan Piñol nos deleitan de nuevo con un precioso relato acerca de la vida, la muerte, el duelo, la pareja, la familia? es decir, los grandes temas que desde siempre nos incumben (y agobian). El libro consiste en una inmersión mágica, en una mentoría realizada por un maestro que ?sin dejar de ser un humano imperfecto y vulnerable? te acompañará con generosidad en el viaje de conocimiento de uno mismo y del sentido que otorgamos a la vida.

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