Emotions!: Making Sense of Your Feelings
A practical and useful, lucid book that helps to unlock many of the mysteries and vexing challenges of emotions and their effect on us and, perhaps most important of all, the wisdom of how to deal with them.--Michael Krasny, Host, KQED-FM Forum program, San FranciscoAs a teenager in high school, I am exposed to a full range of emotions at any give time, and Lamia's book helps me make sense of those feelings...You can pick up Emotions! and read any chapter on its own and find it really beneficial.--Alex Jekowsky, High School Student, Happiness Blogger, and Aspiring PsychologistUnderstandable, concise, and informative, this book is a great one for teens to have on reference to fully understand any and all emotions they might be feeling. It provides an anatomical overview of how emotions affect teens physiologically as well as delves into social situations that are prevalent in teen life.--Lena Felton, High School Student...an extensively researched book chock-full of interesting facts and studies. From the beginning, it is very clear and it lucidly defines the plethora of terms surrounding this complex topic.--Henry Kinder, High School StudentWritten in lucid prose, readers will feel as if they are engaged in a conversation with Dr. Lamia. Readers of this book will learn to use their own emotions wisely.--Mardi Horowitz, M.D., Distinguished professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Franciso"Emotions! Making Sense of Your Feelingsexplains the inner-workings of the array of emotions teens experience. Understandable, concise, and informative, this book is a great one for teens to have on reference to fully understand any and all emotions they might be feeling. It provides an anatomical overview of how emotions affect teens physiologically as well as delves into social situations that are prevalent in teen life. The book is an excellent guide for teenagers who seek to understand what they re feeling, why they re feeling it, and how to cope." ---Lena Felton, High School Student"Emotions! Making Sense of Your Feelings, is an extensively researched book chock-full of interesting facts and studies. From the beginning, it is very clear and it lucidly defines the plethora of terms surrounding this complex topic. The author, Dr. Mary Lamia, does a great job of distinguishing the reality about emotions from the way that they are culturally perceived. This book also answers the question of why we experience these emotions from an evolutionary perspective. It was informative and gave me tools to think about these issues in my daily life." ---Henry Kinder, High School Student"A veteran and highly respected psychologist, Dr. Mary Lamia takes her readers on an important educational and illuminating understanding not only of their own emotions but those of others with whom they interact. A practical and useful, lucid book that helps to unlock many of the mysteries and vexing challenges of emotions and their effect on us and, perhaps most important of all, the wisdom of how best to deal with them." ---Michael Krasny, Host, KQED-FM "Forum" program, San Francisco, and Professor of English at San Francisco State University