Emotion Regulation: Now You See It, Now You Don’t

摘要

In short, there are an amazing number of ideas and implications　to be digested and drawn from this volume—it is a goldmine for the emotions researcher. But, although the aforementioned premises and foci are undoubted strengths of the volume, it is not an easy read—one must be devoted to the study of emotions, and open to new ideas, to take in all the kernels of wisdom within. Not all the ideas are ones I could totally agree with—for example, I worked long and hard to agree that shame comes from rejection, but still don’t necessarily see the centrality of being spatially removed from the parent (perhaps a relatively minor point in the overarching scheme of things). At times I lost the thread of ongoing logic and picked it up again pages later. Nonetheless, my final analysis is that everyone interested in emotions research and theory—everyone—should read this book.