1st Edition
Recognising and Responding to Animal Emotion in a Shared World
Introduction
Chapter 1: The need for order
Chapter 2: Zoological Emotional Scale
Chapter 3: Consciousness, sentience and emotion
Chapter 4: Family love or instinct?
Chapter 5: Anthropomorphism or emotion?
Chapter 6: Grief and stress
Chapter 7: Awareness of death
Chapter 8: Spirituality and experiential consciousness
Chapter 9: Spirituality and culture
Chapter 10: Animal morality and moral standing
Chapter 11: Moral standing and animal welfare
Chapter 12: Moral standing and human needs
Chapter 13: Companion animals and emotion
Chapter 14: Conclusion: The need to listen
Biography
Vicki Hutton is passionate about animals and their welfare, having lived with, worked with, observed and written about animals for many years. After starting her career in the health and community sectors as a mental health therapist, crisis counsellor and group facilitator, Vicki moved into education and research while completing her doctorate in Applied Psychology. Vicki has published widely in the human-animal relationship field, as well as the areas of mental health, stigma and discrimination and social cohesion. She currently lives with an assortment of animals who all contribute in their unique ways to her writing.
