In our next book review series, we will be tackling the big one. Emotions are critical to our survival, but untethered, they threaten our relationships, and even our lives. Guided by 12 passionate books, we will see the ingredients of our emotions, what happens when they go rogue, and how we can reign them in.
This is not the first time this blog will look at emotions. For example we have previously reviewed the excellent Empathy by Roman Krznaric, and What Doctors Feel by Danielle Ofri.
In the next 12 weeks, we will go even deeper and reflect on all shades of emotions, from fear to anger, empathy to violence, trauma to addictions, evil to racism. And our guides will be these 12 powerful books on the power of peril of emotions.
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How Emotions are Made
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Emotional Intelligence
by Daniel Goleman
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The Emotional Brain
by Joseph LeDoux
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Descartes’ Error
by Antonio Damasio
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Against Empathy
by Paul Bloom
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Zero Degrees of Empathy
by Simon Baron-Cohen
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The Anatomy of Violence
by Adrian Raine
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The Lucifer Effect
by Philip Zimbardo
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The Nazi Doctors
by Robert Jay Lifton
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If This is a Man
by Primo Levi
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The Body Keeps the Score
by Bessel van der Kolk
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
by Gabor Mate
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So watch this space as we go through these books over the next few weeks.
The Doctors Bookshelf 