True to our feelings: what our emotions are really telling us

PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PART I: EMOTIONAL STRATEGIES: AN EXISTENTIALIST PERSPECTIVE 1. Anger as a Way of Engaging the World 2. Why It Is Good to Be Afraid 3. Varieties of Fear and Anger: Emotions and Moods 4. Lessons of Love (and Platos Symposium) 5. We Are Not Alone: Compassion and Sympathy 6. Extremes of Emotion: Grief, Laughter, and Happiness 7. Self-Reproach in Guilt, Shame, and Pride 8. Nasty Emotions: Envy, Spite, Jealousy, Resentment, and Vengeance PART II: TOWARD A GENERAL THEORY: MYTHS ABOUT EMOTIONS 9. What an Emotion Theory Should Do 10. Myth 1: Emotions Are Ineffable 11. Myth 2: Emotions Are Feelings 12. Myth 3: The Hydraulic Model 13. Myth 4: Emotions Are in the Mind 14. Myth 5: Emotions Are Stupid (They Have No Intelligence) 15. Myth 6: Two Flavors of Emotion, Positive and Negative 16. Myth 7: Emotions Are Irrational 17. Myth 8: Emotions Happen to Us (They Are Passions) PART III: THE ETHICS OF EMOTION: A QUEST FOR EMOTIONAL INTEGRITY 18. Emotions as Evaluative Judgments 19. Emotions, Self, and Consciousness 20. Emotional Experience (Feelings) 21. The Universality of Emotions: Evolution and the Human Condition 22. Emotions Across Cultures 23. Happiness, Spirituality, and Emotional Integrity ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX