When we’re familiar with the compass of shame responses in our lives, we don’t need to be ashamed when realizing one or more of them. Instead we can be interested in increasing our self-awareness in this way. For now we
Of all the nine inborn human emotions, shame is probably the most undervalued and certainly the most underappreciated. At least this is true in America where high self-confidence is valued for achieving success, wealth, power and fame. The popular conception
The Love and Power Institute posits a few fundamental ideas about the crisis threatening our sustainability as a species today: that overpopulation and unprecedented technological capabilities have led us to destabilize and despoil the earth until very drastic measures will
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Of all the basic inborn emotions joy may be the closest to love. There are pathways to joy from many other inborn emotions, but we will explore the physical sources first. These are the
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | While visual pleasure may move us with or without associated meaning, sound can affect us on a different level. For sound may seem simpler than the complex features of a face or landscape, yet
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Touch, caresses, holding another’s hand or arm for steady support in a crowd or on a careening bus; all these meetings of skin begin connection that can bring us as close as family once
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Is Joy necessarily fleeting? Is joy imagined in heavenly art as a place only found after death? And even then is it only if we humans (meaning mostly men) make few enough mistakes, despite
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Enjoyment forms the emotional basis of developing habits and attachments to familiar people and other living as well as inanimate things and even abstract goals, such as values and ideas. Anyone can learn to
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | We submit that it is not likely for men and women endowed with significantly different hormonal makeup to “naturally” understand each other without considerable learning about the ways they function differently. And it is
by Norman M. Brown Ph.D. | Now we’ve been on a long journey through the dynamics of joy and some of the other emotional colors involved in relations between the sexes. We can finally bring together the positive and