Posted by Suzanne Holmes | Posted in Recommended Reading | Posted on 10-05-2014
Tags: brain, Counseling, emotions, richard j. davidson, santa clarita, therapy
The Emotional Life of Your Brain
by
Richard J. Davidson
Dr. Davidson’s latest book offers a new model for understanding our emotions – their origins, their power and their malleability. He has discovered that personality is composed of six basic emotional “styles,” including resilience, self-awareness, and attention. Our emotional fingerprint results from where on the continuum of each style we fall. He explains the brain circuits that underlie each style in order to give us a new model of the emotional brain, one that will even go so far as to affect the way we treat conditions like autism and depression. And, finally, he provides strategies we can use to change our own brains and emotions-if that is what we want to do.