Emotions of Menace and Enchantment Disgust, Horror, Awe, and Fascination

"Susan Beth Miller skillfully portrays emotions as fluid, multifaceted (experiential, physiological, cognitive, conscious, unconscious), sometimes contradictory, and intrinsically relational. Our feelings reflect appraisals of the world and they reconfigure our selves accordingly, prompting us toward receptive engagement or guarded defensiveness. To her research, Miller brings the knowledge and sensitivity of a sophisticated psychoanalytic clinician, supplemented with insights from anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and literature. Her impressive meditation on emotion will stimulate valuable thoughts in readers, intensifying and enriching their interest in, and understanding of, the affective spectra they encounter in themselves, their patients, and others."-Brent Willock, author of Comparative-Integrative Psychoanalysis, is Founding President, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.