The Wisdom of the Five Messengers: Learning to Follow the Guidance of Feelings
An original, readable, insightful book that invites us to shift our attitudes about emotions from sources of distress to clues to self-healing and increased effectiveness. --Adam Blatner, M.D., Author of The Art of Play:Dr. Altman s refreshing take on the function and purpose of emotions as messengers to the self will help readers to accept their emotions with more understanding and less judgment. --Christine A. Courtois, Ph.D., Author of RecollectionsToo many people see emotions as unwelcome and dangerous. Altman corrects this misperception . . . [and] offers suggestions for how to decode and make productive use of the messages they carry. Written in a straightforward, conversational style, this is a book that will be of practical value to a great many readers. --Steven N. Gold, Ph.D., President Elect, APA Division of Trauma Psychology (56), and Professor, Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University