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William James on emotional health and well being

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Psychology: The Briefer Course

Condensed and reworked from James’s monumental Principles of Psychology, this classic text examines habit; stream of consciousness; self and the sense of personal identity; discrimination and association; the sense of time; memory; perception; imagination; reasoning; emotions, instincts; the will...

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William James
2001
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What Is an Emotion? William James’s Revolutionary 1884 Theory of How Our Bodies Affect Our Feelings

The trailblazing psychologist William James — who shaped our understanding of the psychology of habit — made a revolutionary case in an 1884 essay titled “What is an Emotion?” for “how much our mental life is knit up with our corporeal frame.”

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageActions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

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