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This book takes a unique psychological approach to understanding the powerful emotion of joy, and provides a framework within which the study of human joy and other related positive fulfillment experiences can fit in a meaningful schema. A key feature of this book is its development of an experiential phenomenology of joy, based on more than three hundred descriptions of joy experiences which were recounted by subjects in an empirical study executed by the author. Types of joy experiences are distinguished such as excited vs. serene joy, anticipatory vs. completed joy, and affiliative vs. individuated joy.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This book takes a unique psychological approach to understanding the powerful emotion of joy, and provides a framework within which the study of human joy and other related positive fulfillment experiences can fit in a meaningful schema. A key feature of this book is its development of an experiential phenomenology of joy, based on more than three hundred descriptions of joy experiences which were recounted by subjects in an empirical study executed by the author. Types of joy experiences are distinguished such as excited vs. serene joy, anticipatory vs. completed joy, and affiliative vs. individuated joy.
Autorenporträt
Chris M. Meadows, Ph.D. taught at Vanderbilt University where his teaching and research were in the areas of emotion, personality theory, psychotherapy, and health psychology. He also served as the head of a hospital counseling center, founded a career development center, was a neuropsychologist on an inpatient unit of a major rehabilitation institute, and a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist for over 30 years.