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“A wonderful summary of what was known and what questions were being asked at the dawn of psychology as a science in the 19th century. James is widely mis-cited and misunderstood as someone who advocated for a classical, common sense view of emotion. The irony is that he advocated for just the opposite.” Read more...
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Psychologist
“Out of all the books I own, this is my absolute treasure…. I read the entire thing from cover to cover, which took me a while. It is marvellous – fantastic. His thinking is so subtle. What I love about James is when we knows something for sure – some experiment or something – then he will tell you so; but when he doesn’t, he goes into these wonderful explorations never really coming to a conclusion” Read more...
“He is probably the most influential psychologist of all time, if you look at the different streams of thoughts he influenced……He is so big hearted, as a scientist. He writes about the mechanisms of the stream of consciousness in a beautiful, engaging, literary, rich way, but he doesn’t dismiss other aspects of experience…….An extraordinary work and compulsory reading for psychology students, even though the book is over a hundred years old.” Read more...
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Charles Fernyhough, Novelist
