Affect Imagery Consciousness: The Complete Edition

Silvan S. Tomkins was indeed one of history's most original psychologists, a tireless scientist who contributed much to that discipline. Affect Imagery Consciousness was his life's work and consumed him from the mid 1950s through the end of his life in 1991. With this book, he took on an enormous task; he sought to explore emotions, or affects, why we had them, why we paid attention to them, and how they motivated us to respond to situations in our daily lives. The re-release of Tomkins's magisterial work comes in a beautiful new two-volume hardcover set, with a new prologue from prominent psychiatrist Donald L. Nathanson. The first volume of the set contains the first two volumes of Affect Imagery Consciousness, The Positive Affects and The Negative Affects while the second volume includes the final two volumes, The Negative Affects: Fear and Anger and Cognition: Duplication and Transformation of Information.