This post covers The Book: “How Emotions are made”. By Lisa Feldman Barret. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcout (2017). Why should you care how your emotions are made? Let me ask you this: how often do you feel a victim of your emotions? or someone else’s? Conversely, how often do you feel fully in charge…
Category: Positive Psychology
Historical psychology focused on an illness model, on abnormal psyhology as the norm in research. Recent decades have seen a shift to positive psychology, a focus on what makes and creates positive mental, not just on what damages it.