Emotions, Stress, and Health [Paperback]

In this volume, Alex Zautra illustrates how experience with difficult or stressful emotional situations can, contrary to popular belief, be beneficial; for example, our ability to adapt to stress can be improved by experiencing difficult moments on emotional intensity. Zautra masterfully integrates research and theory on emotion and stress, identifying a unique and important role for stressful life events. He offers new insights into how stress and emotions can influence health and illness and demonstrates the wide applicability of this perspective across domains of love and marriage, work, aging, and community. By reviewing research on chronic pain, depression, child abuse, and addiction, Zautra also provides new insights into clinical problems.

1. The Nature of Emotional Experiences
2. Emotions in Two Dimensions
3. Stress and the Eyes of the Beholder
4. The Effects of Stress on the Experience of Emotions
5. Positive Emotions and Mental Health: Are We Chasing the Rainbow?
6. The Role of Positive Emotions in Health
7. Emotional Intelligences
8. Attention and Pain: The Role of Emotions
9. Depression and Anxiety: Two Frequent Disturbances of Emotion under Stress
10. Addiction and Emotions
11. Emotions Abused
12. Marriage and Other Close Relationships: A Two-Dimensional Look
13. The Quality of Emotional Life at Work
14. The Preservation of Quality of Emotional Life as We Age
15. The Emotional Community
16. Some Conclusions
Notes
References
Index

Written for both educated lay people and professionals, [Emotions, Stress, and Health] will be particularly exciting to researchers and practitioners since it provides a conceptually clean and consistent summary of the approach. There simply is no comparable book on the market; since this 'two-dimensional' model is at the cutting-edge of emotion research, Zautra's exciting book has no competitors. --Metapsychology Online Review