"With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why …
This book offers both an introduction to the methods and language of moral psychology as a philosophical field, and to sadness as an emotion.
Jennifer Radden finds, within Robert Burton's religious and humoral explanations in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy', a remarkably coherent account ofnormal and abnormal psychology with echoes in modern day clinical psychology.
Jennifer Radden here provides a re-interpretation of the classic text by 17th century scholar Robert Burton, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy'. Her new reading of Burton's essential text brings several key facets of his thought to light: the role of imagination in inciting and avertin…
Jennifer Radden finds, within Robert Burton's religious and humoral explanations in his 'Anatomy of Melancholy', a remarkably coherent account of normal and abnormal psychology with echoes in modern day clinical psychology.
