"don't get so upset!"

"Don't Get So Upset!" helps childcare providers understand their own uncomfortable feelings, making it easier to help children do the same.

A more exciting life

A guide to living a more joyful and interesting life.In pursuit of a more exciting life, we often seek external experiences to fulfill us. We take trips, parachute out of airplanes, and buy the latest technology. But the keys to a more joyful, thrilling, and beautiful life are already within us.T...

A more loving world

An empowering guide to creating a kinder, more loving world. The modern world is richer, safer and more connected than ever. But it is also a far less loving world than we need or want: impatience, self-righteousness, moralism and viciousness run rampant, while forgiveness, tolerance and empathy ...

A natural history of human emotions

A politics of melancholia

Why melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political renewalMelancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its sufferer from community. Countering that misconception, A Politics of Melancholia reclaims an understanding of melanc...

A simpler life

This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less.We live in a complicated, frenzied, and noisy world, filled with too much information, too many products, ideas, and opinions. As a result, many of us long for simplicity: a pared down, more peaceful, and...

An economy of well-being

An Economy of Well-being examines the stories and examples of what individuals, families, businesses, non-profit enterprises, communities, and financial institutions can and are doing to implement an economic lifestyle that is based on achieving a flourishing life of well-being and enduring happi...

Anxiety

How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it’s an essential part of being humanToday, anxiety is usually thought of as a pathology, the most diagnosed and medicated of all psychological disorders. But anxiety isn’t always or only a medical condition....

Art against despair

A collection of inspiring and therapeutic works of art.Art therapy for the soul. One of the most unexpectedly useful things we can do when we’re feeling glum or out of sorts is to look at pictures. The best works of art can lift our spirits, remind us of what we love and return perspective to our...

Cognitive psychology and tourism

Compiled from 10 years of research, with chapters contributed by experts in the field, we demonstrate how tourism will benefit from applying a new paradigm found in mainstream psychology, termed here the ‘Cognitive Wave’.

College student mental health and wellness

Addressing the college mental health crisis in a comprehensive, data-driven way, Jeffrey A. Hayes explores theories of college student development and common psychological problems among college students and important aspects of college student well-being, and how we might more effectively work w...

Disrespectful democracy

Disrespectful Democracy offers a new account of the relationship between incivility and political behavior based on a key individual predisposition—conflict orientation. Drawing on a range of original surveys and experiments, Emily Sydnor contends that the rise of incivility in political media ha...

Drawing as therapy

Drawing as a therapeutic practice - for any level - including 80 guided drawing exercises as an aid to self-understanding and fulfillment. When we’re young, all of us draw. As we grow older, most of us stop. We come to see drawing not as a type of play, but as a craft or skill - one that we can d...

Emotion in the library workplace

Authors explore application of the study of emotion in the library workplace and look at future trends in the area. Library managers will take away knowledge about how the library workplace can and should operate with consideration toward emotion, and will glean ideas for implementation with thei...

Emotions and leadership

This volume of Research on Emotion in Organizations contributes to the ongoing research on emotions within organizational leadership through a three-level analysis focusing on: leadership and individual team members; leadership and its effects on the team construct; and, leadership in the overall...

Emotions, decision-making, conflict and cooperation

In order to use the perspective of emotions to explain conflict escalation and crises, a comparison to conceptions such as the pursuit of power or financial interests is warranted. These theoretical considerations are investigated within cases of civil wars and shown to be effective in explaining...

Explosive emotions

Understanding the source of our current political and social malaise through our emotional responses to itWe are in an explosive cultural moment. Whatever explanation for this is offered—inequalities, disaffection of political institutions, traumatic memory, woke culture, the rise of populism, th...

Governing global emotions

What goes wrong when emotions get turned into digital data to be measured, monitored and managedData from facial emotion recognition, brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality, global emotion surveys and sentiment analysis offer an extraordinary new terrain for scientific exploration. Emotion se...

Heartbreak

A practical, philosophical guide to understanding and overcoming heartbreak. Everyone experiences heartbreak at some point in their life. Advice can be heard to receive with a broken heart, and it tends to focus on letting time do the healing. This consoling and encouraging guide from The School ...

Hopeful pessimism

Why “hopeful pessimism” is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitmentThe climate debate is rife with calls for optimism. While temperatures rise and disasters intensify, we are asked to maintain optimism and hope, as if the real threat is pessimism and de...

How digital technologies can support positive psychology

Introducing a number of digital innovations – such as artificial intelligence (AI), gamified solutions, wearable technologies, and social media – Barnes and Prescott explore how these can support areas of positive psychology such as wellbeing, flow, resilience, relationships and improving quality...

How modern media destroys our minds

A guide to navigating modern media and staying sane in a world that does not turn off. Navigating the onslaught of media is overwhelming, to say the least. We are so used to living in a media-saturated world that we are numb to the onslaught of news, images, and posts that batter us daily. As we ...

How to do things with emotions

An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shameThe world today is full of anger. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that seem frenzied, aimless, and cruel. At the same tim...

How to keep your cool

Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay “On Anger” (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: “No plague has cost the human race more dear....

I want a better catastrophe

Reeling from a crisis of hope, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd seeks out today's leading climate thinkers, from collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht to Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. "If it's the end of the world, now what?" he asks, as he steers us through our climate angst in search of a "...

Jack katz

This book is a timely re-introduction to the work and life of one of criminology’s more respected theorists, Jack Katz, to the next generation of thinkers in this field. For nearly 40 years, his work has offered an alternative philosophical perspective to study crime and criminal behavior that is...

Language teacher identity and wellbeing

This book explores how language teacher identity influences and is influenced by wellbeing. It develops our understanding of this interaction through a combination of Indigenous, psychological, critical and postmodern frameworks and the personal perspectives of teachers and researchers.

Mind & body

A practical and playful guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony. The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to inter...

Mindsets in language education

This book is devoted to the interdisciplinary investigation of language learner and teacher motivation, competencies, emotions and wellbeing, based on the theories behind mindsets. It includes a range of theoretical and empirical studies and is an invaluable resource for improving the quality of ...

Night vision

A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly humanUnder the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can...

On confidence

Confidence is a skill that anyone can learn. Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us in the course of our everyday lives: speaking to strangers at parties, asking ...

Penis envy and other bad feelings

Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal anecdotes to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmati...

Philosophical embarrassment

This book explores moments of philosophical embarrassment, focusing on Hume and Wittgenstein, who recognized how their critiques challenged the very foundations of philosophy. It examines how figures like the Vienna Circle and Quine redefined philosophy’s aims and how the later Wittgenstein warne...

Positive psychology for addiction

With detailed examples of recent studies and practical guidance for practitioners, Positive Psychology for Addiction offers a comprehensive and holistic view of addiction recovery and challenges traditional deficit-focused approaches by advocating for strengths-based recovery methods.

Power

Rapture

In this inviting book, philosopher Christopher Hamilton reflects on the nature of rapture and its crucial yet unacknowledged place in our lives.

Relationships

A fresh approach to matters of the heart, Relationships offers practical skills and new attitudes for a more mature vision of love. Since around 1750, we have been living in the era of Romanticism, which has shaped the way we approach love, marriage, and sex. When it comes to love, this book argu...

Sex

Slow ethics and the art of care

The path to good care-giving can be challenging, particularly where practices are characterised by crisis, moral panic and cultural complexity. How can we respond ethically when there is pressure to meet targets, work faster and implement quick, short-term fixes? This book offers a solution in th...

So lonely

“Inspiring and original.”—Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen FocusA deeply personal, philosophical meditation on the global phenomenon of loneliness.Loneliness increases your chance of early death by 26 percent, places your body under extreme physical st...

Sound

Stoic romanticism and the ethics of emotion

An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic periodStoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics championed the elimination of emotion, and Romantic writers made a bold new case for expression, adoptin...

Subjectivity and development in rural contexts

Subjectivity and Development in Rural Contexts presents a compilation of chapters that explore different phenomena of ruralness. 

Teacher dialogical self

This book offers a profound and intimate exploration of teacher identity, delving into the intricate interplay between personal and professional dimensions.

The calm workbook

A therapeutic and consoling workbook with exercises to soothe anxiety and create a state of calm. Most of us long to be a little calmer: too many of our days are lost to agitation and worry, stress and discord. Yet we know that we are at our best when we can manage not to panic and take challenge...

The disease of boredom

A transformative exploration of a painful emotionBoredom visits all of us at some point. Sometimes it is fleeting. Other times it is deep, lasting, or profound. We even experience it in groups. Boredom can be so intolerable that some are willing to do almost anything just to escape it. In this pr...