Did you notice the Unicorn on the dust jacket?

Namaste,
Jed

You would be proud, I have quite a library on the topic of emotions, including Demasio’s books. I like his work and it is heading in the right direction.

Another book that explores dissociation and emotions is is “The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotions” by Jawer and Micozzi. Although it does not work with the emotions as adeptly as you do, it describes many things that have not been explored by psychology, science and philosophy. And makes some very interesting connections. Please consider it for your reading list.

Paper cuts? Good one! GRC flamed out upon the death of its founder some years back. Although I heard that was an attempt at a revival. . .

I work with survivors of relationships with sex addicts and NPDs (Narcissistic Personality Disorder)—commonly co-morbid. The trauma model is just beginning to be used for these women instead of the co-dependency model. To emerge from the trauma, we need emotional education.

Thank you again, Karla. By the way, your newest book arrived yesterday and I began it last night. I am so impressed with it, I ordered the digital download from Sounds True this morning so I can listen while I go through my day. :}

Blessings and Gratitude,
Terre

And thanks also to Terre. I’m reading the Damasio books Leo suggested earlier in this comment thread, and he’s got a really interesting tree model of emotions as responses an organism makes to its environment. I’m gonna blog on it when I finish the books (The Feeling of What Happens and Looking for Spinoza), but here’s a link to one of the illustrations Damasio uses to explain how emotions arise. It’s fascinating, and you can print it out and beat the GRC people over the head with it. Or at least give them paper cuts.

http://www.praxispath.co.uk/5-theory/pd10.html

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Some years ago, I was involved with a man and an organization (GRC) that insisted, a priori, that feelings are a result of thoughts and all feelings can be “controlled” with thoughts.

I knew in every fiber of my body this was untrue and spoke up during the GRC training sessions, during fights with the boyfriend who “suggested” how I could think to avoid the painful feelings I was having about his NPD and addictions, yada, yada.

I kept insisting that my painful feelings were a request to have changed circumstances. . .and since HE was not in the least inclined to make changes, (narcissists never believe anything but their own perfection, so why on earth would he behave differently?), I exited both the man and the organization.

I am so thankful you have returned to speaking and writing about feelings. Emotional Genius has been a very important book in my library of thousands of books (that is no exaggeration). I have ordered your new book.

Blessings,
Terre