Amazon Mary Lamia Category:  Psychology Publisher: American Psychological Association Magination Press ISBN-10:  1433811936 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 192 Copyright: August 15, 2012 ISBN-13: 9781433811937 Emotions contribute significantly to your intelligence and your ability to navigate through your life. Understanding your emotions is essential! Imagine having a tool that can improve your motivation, self-awareness, social relationships, decision-making skills, self-control, and your ability to achieve goals. Your emotions can do all of that for you! Emotions can tell you something about yourself, your relationships with others, and the world in which you live that you may not have accurately perceived in another way.

Michael Krasny, Host, KQED-FM Forum program, San Francisco
A veteran and highly respected psychologist, Dr. Mary Lamia takes her readers on an important educational and illuminating understanding not only of their own emotions but those of others with whom they interact. A practical and useful, lucid book that helps to unlock many of the mysteries and vexing challenges of emotions and their effect on us and, perhaps most important of all, the wisdom of how best to deal with them.

Mardi Horowitz, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco
Dr. Lamia has written an exceptional book about emotions. Written in lucid prose, readers will feel as if they are engaged in a conversation with Dr. Lamia. The reader can follow the thread of a personal emotion by naming it and then reading the informative chapter on it. Themes that have been distressing can be seen in a new light and this will lead to making better choices about relationships with others. Readers of this book will learn to use their own emotions wisely. I highly recommend Emotions! Making Sense of Your Feelings.