Passion and Reason

When Oxford published Richard Lazarus's landmark book on the psychology of emotion - Emotion and Adaptation - in 1991, it was hailed by Contemporary Psychology as "a brightly shining star in the galaxy of such volumes." Now in Passion and Reason, Lazarus draws on his four decades of pioneering research to bring readers the first book to move beyond both clinical jargon and `feel-good' popular psychology to really explain, in plain, accessible language, how emotions are aroused, how they are managed, and how they critically shape our views of ourselves and the world around us.