Started reading the book on emotion that I bought from Joscephine. I incorporate emotional truth exercises in my workshops, after all. This is one of the rare and hard-to-find volumes that contain the first scientific treatises on emotion, a field that psychology still finds difficulty defining and grasping.

It begins with the theories of the four giants who pioneered explorations in emotion: Charles Darwin (emotion and survival), William James (emotions and bodily changes); Walter Canon (extensive studies on pain, hunger, and rage); and Sigmund Freud (hysteria and catharsis).

I am currently reading the studies on the impact of emotion on behavior (arousal theory), and the loci of emotion in the human brain (emotions and neural programs).

Very interesting. But, no, this isn't a book that no one can and should read overnight.