1st Edition
Emotions of Menace and Enchantment Disgust, Horror, Awe, and Fascination
Chapter 1: Entering the World of Emotion
Chapter 2: The Gatekeeper Emotion: Disgust
Chapter 3: The Breakdown Emotion: Horror
Chapter 4: The Imbibing Emotion: Awe
Chapter 5: The Fixed Eye of Fascination
Concluding Comments
Biography
Susan Beth Miller is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She enjoys writing fiction as well as non-fiction and has published the novel, Indigo Rose, in addition to The Shame Experience, Shame in Context, Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion and a book for teenagers with troubled parents entitled When Parents Have Problems.
"Susan Beth Miller skillfully portrays emotions as fluid, multifaceted (experiential, physiological, cognitive, conscious, unconscious), sometimes contradictory, and intrinsically relational. Our feelings reflect appraisals of the world and they reconfigure our selves accordingly, prompting us toward receptive engagement or guarded defensiveness. To her research, Miller brings the knowledge and sensitivity of a sophisticated psychoanalytic clinician, supplemented with insights from anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and literature. Her impressive meditation on emotion will stimulate valuable thoughts in readers, intensifying and enriching their interest in, and understanding of, the affective spectra they encounter in themselves, their patients, and others."-Brent Willock, author of Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis, is Founding President, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
