Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S. Tomkins (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521448328 ISBN 13: 9780521448321

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

A comprehensive introduction to the work of Silvan Tomkins - a leading theorist of human emotion and motivation.

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Review

"...an edited volume of Tomkins's selected writings is of such great value. Though the task was no doubt arduous, E. Virginia Demos has selected and edited a perspicuous account of Tomkins's nearly 50 years of scholarship." Ed de St. Aubin, Contemporary Psychology

Book Description

Silvan Tomkins was one of the most creative theorists of emotion in the recent past, but he was ahead of his time, and largely ignored. This book gathers together his writings under one cover and makes them available to psychologists, psychiatrists, and social scientists at this more favorable time. His theory is unique in specifying the role of emotion as distinct from cognition and drives. It is truly a bio-psycho-social theory of human emotion and of human psychological functioning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521448328
• ISBN 13: 9780521448321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 540
• Editor: Demos E. Virginia