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Today more than ever, the education doled out in classrooms is cold and cognitive. But, once outside, it is our uneducated emotions that move us, hold us back, and lead us astray. It is, at first and at last, our emotions that determine our choice of profession, partner, and politics, and our relation to money, sex, and religion. Nothing can make us feel more alive, or more human, than our emotions, or hurt us more. Yet many people lumber through life without giving full consideration to their emotions, partly because our empirical, materialistic culture does not encourage it or even make it seem possible, and partly because it requires unusual strength to gaze into the abyss of our deepest drives, needs, and fears. This book proposes to do just that, examining over 25 emotions ranging from lust to love and humility to humiliation, and drawing some powerful and astonishing conclusions along the way.

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Acheron Press
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June 30, 2015
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0992912725
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978-0992912727
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Burton is never short of an interesting and sharp judgment. --Prof Peter Toohey, Psychology Today

Each of us spends maybe 15 years or more in formal education. We are taught mathematics, chemistry, geography, history, and so on, but at no point are we taught anything about the emotions. 'Heaven and Hell' helps to redress the balance by educating our emotions... The book reminds us of the power and significance of our emotions, and that their influence is all-too-often overlooked. Each of the 29 chapters focuses on a particular emotion and discusses its origin, historical aspects and philosophy. The impact of each emotion, both negative and positive, is then addressed. Essentially, in relatively few pages, the reader's existing perception of an emotion is challenged as he or she develops further insight and understanding. The book does what it sets out to do: it makes you stop and think... 'Heaven and Hell' focuses on a subject that is relevant to all. It enables and encourages us to think differently and challenges our understanding of emotions we experience but do not really think about... a fascinating read. --British Medical Association Book Awards

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Acheron Press; 1st edition (June 30, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 234 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0992912725
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0992912727
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1 x 8.25 inches

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Dr Neel Burton FRSA is a psychiatrist, philosopher, and wine-lover who lives and teaches in Oxford, England. He is a Fellow of Green-Templeton College in the University of Oxford, and the winner of several book prizes including, the feather in his cap, a Best in the World Gourmand Award. His work features regularly in the likes of Aeon and Psychology Today and has been translated into several languages. When he is not reading or writing, or imbibing, he enjoys cooking, gardening, skiing, learning languages, visiting museums and gardens, and travelling, especially to sunny wine regions.

His books include:

- The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a Psychiatrist

- The Meaning of Madness (Ataraxia 1)

- Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception (Ataraxia 2)

- Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions (Ataraxia 3)

- For Better for Worse: Essays on Sex, Love, Marriage, and More (Ataraxia 4)

- Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking (Ataraxia 5)

- The Art of Failure: The Anti Self-Help Guide (Ataraxia 6)

- Growing from Depression

- The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less, and

- The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting

www.neelburton.com

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A Deep Dive Into “Emotions”

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2020

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I do love to read a book on occasion that gives me a mental workout, and this one certainly had my brain doing calisthenics! The author is clearly well read and a deep thinker. The Heaven and Hell of the title have to do with emotion, and how it can sink us down into depths and lift us up to heights. The author follows a progress of sorts, from boredom to ecstasy. His definition of emotion is somewhat loose, as he characterizes concepts like ambition and lust as emotions. Each emotion’s section as detailed in the book looks at the deep history of the concept, harkening back to the ancient Greeks and other historical writers to give a perspective on the emotion. Fascinating reading! This is a deep and weighty book, especially the introduction (which is particularly technical), so I recommend reading it in small doses so you do not over-fatigue your mind. I fear that could happen quite easily. But, oh, what a journey! If your mind is in need of a little exercise, this book will certainly fill the bill.

I received a free copy of this book, but I also purchased it; my review is affected by neither.

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Knowledge is power.

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2020

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When you combine a philosopher with a psychiatrist you get this book. It gave me some new insights into our emotions that ancient philosophers declared long ago. A very interesting read.

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Karie L. Alton

Fascinating and Informative

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2020

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As a student and teacher of spirituality I find the intersection with philosophy quite fascinating indeed. Without being stogy or boring, Mr. Burton brings to life the relevant perspective of the great stoics combined with modern academic thought and research to enlighten us of the deeper layers of ourselves. A great read!

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Interesting

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2020

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I found parts of this book to be insightful for me, parts of it deep and illuminating, parts of it almost dull and dreary, and parts left me indifferent. It must have been a rough day. So all in all, because of those parts I found so good, I'll call this book interesting. I'm glad I read it for those parts.

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Nancy Lyons

Good read

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2020

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I haven’t read it yet but I think it will be a good afternoon read.

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Giannis D.

Erudite, useful, entertaining!

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2020

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Three things I liked: 1. Good knowledge of phychology, philosophy, etymology. 2. No boring repetitions 3. Good analysis of emotions and even explaining of the subtle differences between some of them (e.g. desire-wish-urge-craving-yearning-drive etc. Erudite, useful, entertaining!

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2021

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This survey of human emotions is very interesting and comprehensive in my opinion. I was very impressed by the author's research and insight.

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Cherie'

I thought the research was great and a lot touched home

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2018

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whoa talk about getting in touch with your emotions, I learned alot from this book.

I thought the research was great and a lot touched home.

thank you good reads for the free kindle book.

Cherie'

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Extraordinary breadth

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2020

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This is a very cool book. A huge list of emotions with an eclectic mix of references, many spiritual. Some of the subjects warranted greater depth but that would have changed the rhythm of the book. Where the book is at its best is when it veers into the philosophical. There are extraordinary snippets of wisdom and flashes of real brilliance. The book has inspired me to buy more by the author and I hope to be equally awed by the breadth of knowledge on display

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Philip Chadwick

disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2021

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This should be renamed - the philosophy of emotions - as it mostly somewhat tendentious waffling rather than a more rigorous scientific approach
That said it does contain fresh insights and a slightly different way of looking at how emotions control other aspects of our lives and not simply the emotional ones
It also comes across at times like one of those ghastly self help books

Hughie Jones

Lot of things I knew about.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2021

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It was so so, but quite easy on the brain

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Philip Stevenson

I feel better having read this

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 17, 2020

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Interesting read,give a good rational to the way we react to stimuli

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What are the other temperamental traits besides ambition?

Reviewed in Australia on January 30, 2022

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Book Review: Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions
The is the second book I have read by Neel Burton. I published a book review about the first book in November 2021: Book Review: The Meaning of Madness: A Critical Guide to Mental Health and Illness by Neel Burton. I recommend you read that blog first if you not already done so.
In Heaven and Hell Burton, after a self-confessed dense and technical introduction, discusses 26 emotions ranging from ambition to wonder. Each chapter is self-contained, very erudite and the book contains a number of interesting insights. For example in the chapter on Empathy, Burton spends a considerable time distinguishing between empathy and sympathy which many EQ practitioners fail to do.
As some of my followers know my core belief is that the practice of Emotional Intelligence has taken a wrong turning. To me the secret to lifting your EQ is not to focus on emotions but on temperament, your genetic emotional pre-disposition. My mantra is that people drive performance, emotions drive people, temperament drives emotions.
The model of temperament I use is based on the Humm-Wadsworth model. This model postulates that we are all slightly mad and on the spectra of seven mental illnesses. Two are generally dominant, three are average, and two weak. The mixture of these seven traits determines our temperament which is our genetic emotional predisposition.
So after about reading two-thirds of the book and seeing no mention of temperament I was beginning to incur self-doubts. Then in the chapter on Ambition I had an eureka moment when I read this passage:
“Unlike mere aspiration, which has a particular goal for object, ambition is a trait or disposition, and, as such, is persistent and pervasive. A person cannot alter her ambition any more than she can alter any other temperamental trait: having achieved one goal, the truly ambitious person soon formulates another at which to keep on striving.”
There is only one other mention of temperamental traits and that is in the introduction:
One can also distinguish between temperamental traits and character traits. Temperamental traits are innate and cannot altogether be altered, whereas character traits are more open, or less closed, to shaping. ‘Character’ derives from the Greek charaktêr, which refers to the mark impressed upon a coin, and character traits can become so ingrained as to imprint themselves onto our physical features. As Coco Chanel once quipped, ‘Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.’
So the reader after finishing this book is the unfortunate position of knowing that there are several temperament traits but only knowing the name of one. Ambition is certainly a temperamental trait; in my 7MTF model it is related to the Politician. The mental illness associated with it is paranoia. But when you start considering the other 7MTF factors you may ask yourself where are the emotions such as fear, obsession and creativity.
I see this as a major failing of the book so while I enjoyed it I can only give 3 stars.

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