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Emotions have a bad rep these days. Especially in medical research, emotions are usually the enemies. This orientation is understandable with respect to rage, but laughing and crying also are treated as pathological. There are many studies of a new diagnosis called Emotional Lability (EL) and the even more extreme one, Emotional Incontinence (EI). Read More

For many years the classes I have taught at a large university all involved social/emotional education (SE). They worked best with a discussion format, rather than lectures, in seminars of about 20 students. Until recently the topic of these courses has been Communicating, role-playing difficult conversations that the students report. My present courses concern The World of Pop Songs. Read More

What causes obsessions, small and large? Perhaps unacknowledge emotions, especially humiliation and/or anger, when they spiral. Read More

Understanding pop love song lyrics can help anyone to better understand their relationships and themselves. The class on pop songs that I teach for freshman is an introduction to social science, but it is also designed to develop into a small (20 persons) self-help psychotherapy group. Read More