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| Preface to Second Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Preliminary observations | |
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| Emotion | |
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| The cognitive approach in psychology | |
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| Summary of the aims of this book | |
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| Philosophy and theory | |
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| The cognitive philosophy of emotion | |
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| Some initial questions for the aspiring emotion theorist | |
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| Early theories of emotion: the Greek philosophers | |
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| The Platonic model of emotion | |
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| The development of the feeling theory of emotions: Rene Descartes | |
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| The psychologising of feeling theory: William James | |
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| The behaviourist theory of emotions | |
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| The development of the cognitive account of emotions: Aristotle, Aquinas, and Spinoza | |
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| Twentieth-century cognitive accounts of emotion | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| Cognitive theories of emotion | |
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| Categorical versus dimensional approaches to emotion | |
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| Network theories | |
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| Appraisal theories | |
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| Summary | |
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| Cognitive theories of emotional disorder | |
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| Seligman's learned helplessness theory | |
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| Beck's cognitive therapy | |
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| Williams, Watts, MacLeod, and Mathews (1988, 1997) | |
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| Teasdale and Barnard (1993) | |
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| Social-cognitive theories | |
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| Miscellaneous theories | |
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| Summary | |
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| Towards an integrated cognitive theory of emotion: the SPAARS approach | |
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| The picture so far | |
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| Some theoretical remarks concerning a theory of mind | |
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| The format of mental representations | |
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| Emotion generation via schematic models | |
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| Additional constraints and processes within SPAARS | |
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| A note on complex emotions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Basic emotions and their disorders | |
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| Fear | |
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| Normal fear and anxiety | |
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| Disordered fear and anxiety | |
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| Panic | |
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| Generalised anxiety and worry | |
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| Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) | |
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| Phobias and obsessions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Sadness | |
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| Sadness: some theoretical considerations | |
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| Combinations of sadness and other basic emotions | |
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| Grief | |
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| Depression | |
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| Postnatal depression | |
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| Other affective disorders | |
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| Further comments and conclusions | |
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| Anger | |
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| The moral nature of anger | |
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| Events, agents, interpretations, and appraisals involved in anger | |
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| Other factors contributing to the experience of anger | |
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| Too much anger versus too little | |
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| Theories of anger | |
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| The relationship of anger to other emotions | |
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| Anger disorder | |
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| Conclusing remarks | |
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| Disgust | |
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| Some theoretical comments | |
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| Complex emotions derived from disgust | |
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| Disorders of disgust | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| Happiness | |
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| Joy and other circumscribed positive emotions | |
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| Traditional approaches to the study of happiness | |
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| Towards a theoretical account of happiness | |
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| The repressive coping style | |
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| Emotional states related to happiness | |
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| Happiness order and happiness disorder | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Overview and conclusions | |
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| Summary of the SPAARS model | |
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| Meta-emotional skills and representations | |
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| Therapeutic implications | |
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| Final comments on SPAARS | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |