"A Norton Professional book."--P. [ii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brain emotional systems and qualities of mental life : from animal models of affect to implications for psychotherapeutics / Jaak Panksepp -- Reciprocal influences between body and brain in the perception and expression of affect : a polyvagal perspective / Stephen W. Porges -- The functions of emotion in infancy : the regulation and communication of rhythm, sympathy, and meaning in human development / Colwyn Trevarthen -- Multivlevel meaning making and dyadic expansion of consciousness theory : the emotional and the polymorphic polysemic flow of meaning / Ed Tronick -- Right brain affect regulation : an essential mechanism of development, trauma, dissociation, and psychotherapy / Allan N. Schore -- Emotion as integration : a possible answer to the question, what is emotion? / Daniel J. Siegel -- Emotion and recognition at work : energy, vitality, pleasure, truth, desire, and the emergent phenomenology of transformational experience / Diana Fosha -- Emotion, mindfulness, and movement : expanding the regulatory boundaries of the window of affect tolerance / Pat Ogden -- Emotion in romantic partners, intimacy found, intimacy lost, intimacy reclaimed / Marion Solomon -- Extravagant emotion : understanding and transforming love relationships in emotionally focused therapy / Susan Johnson -- The communication of emotions and the growth of autonomy and intimacy within family therapy / Dan Hughes.

The role of emotion in bodily regulation, dyadic connection, dissociation, trauma, transformation, marital communication, play, well-being, health, creativity, and social engagement is explored by today's leading researchers and clinicians.