Shift: Managing Your Emotions--So They Don't Manage You

Consider that for a moment: One of the earliest forms of surgery in the history of medicine was used to help people regulate their feelings. The warmth, food, and feelings of closeness brought back memories of the large Friday dinners they enjoyed before the war, which had already vanished into some distant past. When Hollis walked in the kitchen and saw yesterday’s mail, replete with mortgage and utility bills, her heart rate picked up and her palms began to sweat. Finally, came the “cognitive revolution” that swept through the world of psychology in the 1970s and has maintained its primacy ever since.