Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I Introduction -- 1 Challenging the Prevailing View -- The Affective Connection -- Working Documents of the Project: Use of Narrative and Film Material -- Summary and Overview of the Volume -- Being and Time: The Historical Context -- 2 Affect, Human Development, and Dynamic Systems -- Scope of Developmental Psychology: Then and Now -- Emotion -- Biography -- Dynamic Systems: Background and Conceptual Terms -- Emotion -- Dynamic Systems -- Generalization from Cases -- PART II Emotion as the Integrative Link in Social and Personality Development -- 3 Lives Attracted to Shame and Longing -- Overview -- Rogers's Early Life -- Analysis of Rogers' Earliest Life -- The Early School Years -- Period of Rebellion -- An Analysis of Rogers' Career and Adult Life: Prominent Themes -- Commitment to Healing -- Commitment to Achievement -- Affective Themes and Their Dynamic Interplay in Personality -- Emotional Profile of Rogers -- Excitement and Interest -- Shame -- Application of Affect Theory -- Summary and Concluding Thoughts -- 4 Lives Repelled by Fear and Distress -- Early Childhood -- Developmental Analysis of Childhood and Adolescence -- Becoming an Adult: Adolescence and Young Adult Years -- Ellis Formalizes His Therapeutic Ideology -- How to Finesse Negative Emotion -- Ellis and Intimacy -- Summary and Concluding Thoughts -- 5 Lives Repelled and Attracted by Contempt and Shame -- Socioemotional Development -- Early Life -- Adolescence and Early Adulthood -- Later Adult Life -- Content Analysis of the Autobiography -- Attachment Style -- Affective Profile -- The Perls Affective Persona -- Perls's Theory of Emotion -- Affects in Psychotherapy -- Concluding Thoughts -- PART III Emotion as the Link in Intellectual Work -- 6 Wisdom and Passion.

Emotional Patterns -- Organization Analysis -- Absolute Logic -- Relativistic Logic -- Patterned Thought -- Descriptive Writing -- Conventions or Personal Style -- Logical Organizations and Emotions -- The Traditions: Genius of Emotion as Oxymoronic -- Differential Emotion and Thought -- Coding -- 7 Cognitive Stages and Joy, Surprise -- Expectations for Affect Structures -- Interest and Joy as Information Filters -- Undeveloped Anger -- Flexible Emotion -- Emotional Processes in Thought -- Blocked, Silent, and Singular Emotions and Thoughts -- Book 1 -- Book 2 -- Book 3 -- Joy Alone -- Book 2 -- Book 3 -- Many Passioned Ideas -- Book 1: Emergence of a Passionate Therapy -- Book 2: Linking Emotions to Stages in Therapy -- Book 3: Integrating Passion and Being -- The ''Integrative Process of Changingness'' -- Book 1 -- Book 2 -- Book 3 -- 8 Cartesian Logic and Anger, Fear -- Stated Philosophy -- Expectations for Life's Work from Socioemotional Development -- Intimacy and Emotionality Emerge as Problem Areas -- The Singular Emotion of Fear: Continuity Across a Life and Across Themes -- Multiple Emotions - A Second View -- Cognitive Style in the First Writings Related to Fear and Magnified Emotionality -- Emotion and Logic - Fear and Absolute Thinking -- Later Books on RET Therapy -- The Silent Emotion: Contempt -- Layers of Information -- Ellis's Challenge -- Ideoaffective Themes: Nontransforming Adult Development -- Fear and Contempt: A Particular Closed Organizing System -- Background Issues: The Hidden Patterns Emerge -- Ellis on the Frontier -- 9 Dialectical Logic and Excitement, Disgust, and Shame -- The Development of Perls's Ideoaffective Processes -- Work in the Early Years: Building and Exploring the Emotional Scripts -- Emotional Content in the Early Years -- Early Emotional Patterns -- Perls as a Wild Man -- Transition to Later Years.

Perls Late in Life: The Gestalt Approach and Gestalt Therapy Verbatim -- Organismic Organization to Holistic Doctrine -- Emotional Resistance to Lack of Self-Expression -- From Shame to Underdog -- Self-Conscious to Self-Actualization -- From Internal Babble to Fertile Void -- Summary -- PART IV Emotion as the Link in Therapeutic Behavior -- 10 Postures and Climate in Dyadic Interaction -- Affective Postures -- Affective Fractals -- Analyses of Gloria's Roles in Therapy -- Coding Gloria's Affect -- Gloria's Use of Verbal Emotion -- Changes in Gloria Across Sessions -- Setting the Emotional Climate -- The Film -- Rogers: Therapeutic Intentions and Outcomes -- The Genius of Emotional Environment and Posture -- Therapeutic Intentions and Outcomes -- Environment and Static Posture -- Clear and Open Posture -- More than Clear - Focused -- Prizing -- Summary of the Rogerian Environment -- Moving Around in Feelings -- Moving Around in Feelings - Synchrony -- Moving from Distant to Present -- Ellis: Therapeutic Intentions and Outcomes -- Stated Intentions -- Environment and Static Posture -- Head First -- Practicing-Repeating -- Teaching -- Work -- Boundaries -- Perls: The Safe Emergency -- Perls's Intentions and Goals -- Perls on Tape: Establishing the Emotional Climate -- Perls's Nonverbal Climate and Commentary -- Summary -- Emotional Climate in Therapy -- Goals and Posture -- Therapist Compatibility -- Attachment Styles -- Emotional Expression -- Concluding with Gloria -- PART V Presenting a New View -- 11 Summarizing the Emotional Links -- Reviewing the Particulars of Small Expressive Behaviors -- Affective Organization, Theories, Values, and Goals -- Emotional Behavior and Scholarly Work -- Attachment Relationships -- Attachment and Therapy -- Emotions Set Boundary Conditions for Growth and Change -- Emotions as Agents of Developmental Divergence.

Change: Crisis Versus Small Effects -- 12 Lives and Change -- Old Psychology -- New Views -- Means Become Ends -- Dynamic Systems: A New View -- Emotions as Change Agents in a Contextual Environment -- Order, Complexity, and Chaos -- Singular Events and Personality -- Initial Conditions -- Patterns and Attractors -- Development -- State Changes -- Strange Attractors -- Determinism and Nondeterminism -- State Spaces of Personality -- Recognizing an Organized Pattern -- Summary and Concluding Thoughts -- Appendix -- Autobiographies -- Affect -- Discrete Emotions -- Global Emotional Terms -- Themes -- Therapist/Client Interview -- Affect Words -- Facial Expressions -- Theoretical Works -- Affects -- Intellectual Style -- References -- Subject Index -- Author Index.