Stress and Emotion: A New Synthesis

by Richard S. Lazarus PhD

Overview

This volume is a sequel to the landmark work that established an exciting new field of study, Stress, Appraisal and Coping (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984). The author now explores the newest trends in research and theory, focusing on the rationale for a cognitive-mediational approach to stress and emotions.

He makes clear distinctions between social stress, physiological stress, and psychological stress. By integrating both stress and emotion into one theoretical framework, with appraisal and coping as its basis, this book takes a narrative approach to both theory and research.

Lazarus concludes with a look at stress and health, with a specific focus on new developments in infectious diseases, the role of the nervous system, and his view of recent changes in psychotherapy.

For all upper division psychology majors, graduate students, academics, and professionals in related fields

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826103802
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	05/04/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Richard S. Lazarus (1922-2002) taught at Johns Hopkins University, Clark University, and, from 1957 until his retirement in 1991, the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, Dr. Lazarus began his influential research into psychological stress and coping processes which contributed substantially to the "cognitive revolution" that occurred in psychology during the 1960's. Dr. Lazarus published over 200 scientific articles in social, personality, clinical, and health psychology and 20 books

Table of Contents

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Figures and Tables
Foreword by Susan Folkman
Preface
PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES

1. Epistemology and Metatheory

PART II: LEVELS OF SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS

2. Stress and Emotion
3. Psychological Stress and Appraisal
4. Emotions and Appraisal
5. Coping

PART III: RESEARCH APPLICATIONS

6. Stress and Trauma
7. Stress, Emotion, and Coping in Special Groups

PART IV: NARRATIVE VIEWPOINT

8. Emotion Narratives: A Radical New Research Approach
9. Narrative Visons for Each of 15 Emotions

PART V: CLINICAL ISSUES

10. Health, Clinical Intervention, and the Future

References
Subject Index
Name Index

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What People are Saying About This

Howard Leventhal

:azarus presents us with an enormous array of conceptual issues at the coe of emotion and cognition, some of which are barely recognized by most scholars...ways of applying emotion theory and its research methods to problems of aging, adolescence, relocation and immigration, and the demands they make on our resources for long-term adaptation...this [is a] rich review of a half century of thought and activce investigation. (Howard Leventhal, Board of Governor's, Professor of Health Psychology, Rutgers University)

From the Publisher

Stress and Emotion provides a searching analysis of the premises and reasoning that underlie Richard Lazarus's ideas about emotion and stress, appraisal and coping."—from the foreword by Susan Folkman, PhD, University of California, Berkeley