This book is about emotion and personality, focusing on how emotion powerfully influences moment-to-moment thoughts, behaviors, and interpersonal interactions. Though emotion is continually present, it is seldom in consciousness, and thus affects lives in a covert manner. This hidden influence is revealed through the example of the lives of three famous mid-century psychologists: Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, and Fritz Perls. Carol Magai and Jeanette Haviland-Jones show how each person has his or her own unique "emotional organization," that exerts a distinct and unique bias on what we see, feel, and think. "Ambitious, textured, and elegant... This book is a tour de force demonstration of how one can indeed carry out a study of the whole person in all his or her complexity. Highly recommended." Choice Table of Contents Preface Part I. Introduction:
1. Challenging the prevailing view
2. Affect, human development, and dynamic systems Part II. Emotion as the Integrative Link in Social and Personality Development:
3. Lives attracted to shame and longing: Rogers
4. Lives repelled by fear and distress: Ellis
5. Lives repelled and attracted by contempt and shame: Perls Part III. Emotion as the Link in Intellectual Work:
6. Wisdom and passion
7. Cognitive stages and joy, surprise: Rogers
8. Cartesian logic and anger, fear: Ellis
9. Dialectical logic and excitement, disgust and shame: Perls Part IV. Emotion as the Link in Therapeutic Behavior:
10. Postures and climate in dyadic interaction Part V. Presenting a New View:
11. Summarizing the emotional links
12. Lives and change: emotional energy in linear, complex, and chaotic personality systems. Authors Carol Magai, Long Island University, New York Jeannette Haviland-Jones, Rutgers University, New Jersey | 
