Contents

Introduction

Diana Fosha, Daniel J. Siegel, and Marion Solomon

1. Brain Emotional Systems and Qualities of Mental Life: From Animal Models of Affect to Implications for Psychotherapeutics

Jaak Panksepp

2. Reciprocal Influences Between Body and Brain in the Perception and Expression of Affect: A Polyvagal Perspective

Stephen W. Porges

3. The Functions of Emotion in Infancy: The Regulation and Communication of Rhythm, Sympathy, and Meaning in Human Development

Colwyn Trevarthen

4. Multilevel Meaning Making and Dyadic Expansion of Consciousness Theory: The Emotional and the Polymorphic Polysemic Flow of Meaning

Ed Tronick

5. Right Brain Affect Regulation: An Essential Mechanism of Development, Trauma, Dissociation, and Psychotherapy

Allan N. Schore

6. Emotion as Integration: A Possible Answer to the Question, What Is Emotion?

Daniel J. Siegel

7. Emotion and Recognition at Work: Energy, Vitality, Pleasure, Truth, Desire, and the Emergent Phenomenology of Transformational Experience

Diana Fosha

8. Emotion, Mindfulness, and Movement: Expanding the Regulatory Boundaries of the Window of Affect Tolerance

Pat Ogden

9. Emotion In Romantic Partners: Intimacy Found, Intimacy Lost, Intimacy Reclaimed

Marion Solomon

10. Extravagant Emotion: Understanding and Transforming Love Relationships in Emotionally Focused Therapy

Susan Johnson

11. The Communication of Emotions and the Growth of Autonomy and Intimacy within Family Therapy

Dan Hughes

References

Index