Inward Bound: Exploring the Geography of Your Emotions - Softcover

Keen, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553353888 ISBN 13: 9780553353884

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1992

Synopsis

The author of the New York Times bestseller Fire in the Belly guides us on an enlightening journey across the emotional landscape of our own inner psyches. Using self-tests and practical advice, Inward Bound teaches us to master the art of emotional literacy—how to understand what our minds and bodies are really telling us through the ups and downs of our emotions.
 
Paying special attention to “negative” emotions such as fatigue, depression, grief, and especially boredom—the undiagnosed disease from which most “normal” people suffer—Sam Keen shows us how the low periods in our lives can actually be the impetus for the most profound and lasting change. While most people deny emotional lows in the hopes that they will go away; eat, drink, or tranquilize themselves; take mood elevators; or otherwise fill their time with empty activities, Keen instead teaches us how to re-vision negative emotions as positive way stations on the path to self-discovery.
 
In Inward Bound, Keen shows us how to recover the full spectrum of our feelings and points the reader on a journey to greater health, intimacy, vitality, and a renewed joy in life.

About this title

About the Author:

Sam Keen is a noted author and lecturer who has written thirteen books on philosophy and religion. He earned graduate degrees from the Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University, and spent twenty years working as an editor of Psychology Today. Keen coproduced the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Faces of the Enemy, and was the subject of a PBS special with Bill Moyers entitled Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen. When not writing or traveling around the world lecturing and giving seminars on a wide range of topics, Keen cuts wood, tends to his farm in the hills above Sonoma, takes long hikes, and practices the flying trapeze.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Here, rescued from out-of-print limbo in an apparent attempt to capitalize on the success of Keen's bestselling A Fire in the Belly, comes a 1980 Keen work, slightly revised and given a new introduction--and a new name, so much more 90's-style than the original: What to Do When You're Bored and Blue. Well, as we pointed out 12 years ago, one thing you should not do is to read this book, which is, as we said then, full of ``bubble-headed mystical insights'' in which Keen ``takes boredom as a synonym for practically every lifestyle malady, from simply monotony to full- fledged depression,'' and recommends, among other tactics, that you ``replace the TV set with your own imagination: `On my channel 1 this morning, Sophia Loren and I are shipwrecked....' Flotsam.'' -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0553353888
• ISBN 13: 9780553353884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244