Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology
Before we are anything else, we are feeling bodies. In fact, feelings are an important part of every experience we ever have. This book explains what feelings are, describes their relationship with other psychological phenomena, and shows how their analys
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Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology John Cromby University of Leicester, UK
© John Cromby 2015
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David Smail (1938–2014) influenced me greatly, ever since I first read one of his books as an undergraduate. During the last decade or so of David’s life, I was fortunate, with the other members of the Midlands Psychology Group, to work more closely with him. In doing so I benefited, not only from his reading, wisdom and courage, but from his dry wit and supremely eloquent swearing. It is with some justification that David was once described as ‘psychology’s Voltaire’: this book is dedicated to him.
Contents
List of Tables
viii
Acknowledgements
ix
1 Introducing
1
2 Feeling
20
3 Relating
41
4 Experiencing
63
5 Researching
86
6 Believing
105
7 Exhausting
124
8 Maddening
1
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