Emotions

Who could be against empathy?  Isn’t it a good thing?  Don’t we need it to relate to one another?  How could someone, Paul Bloom, write a whole book about why empathy is bad?  The answer is a surprising journey into what we mean when we say “empathy” and the neg…

Everyone feels emotions. Even those who seek to suppress their emotions through stuffing or addiction still feel them. However, most of the time, we don’t consider how our emotions come to be or how they’re threaded through our evolution. Shining a l…

It’s a classic, a 1980 classic.  Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns has come up a few times as a reference over the years.  Some have described it as cognitive behavioral therapy for the masses.  Despite being easy to read, it’s long a…

It’s sort of like sausage-making. You know what emotions are, but you’re not sure you want to know what goes in them. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain  takes you through the journey where emotions aren’t consistent across cultures – or ev…