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This is a short work purposely kept short to introduce the reader to the basic ideas of Affect Theory and my personal interpretation of that theory. I hope it will lead you to investigate many more resources, many which you will find listed in the book.
The theory has lead myself, and others, to believe that we simply need to look at ourselves in a new way, in a new very basic way. Despite a century of progress in mental health and a half century of "Self-Help" we are not much better off.
A simple way to put it is that we should have learned much about our feelings in kindergarten just as we learned our ABC's and we need to now start to teach our children to be emotionally intelligent, as well as ourselves. No, it is not too late.
As that master of story telling George Lucas said in an interview on the talk show "Charlie Rose" about education and emotional intelligence :
"......the digital world is going to completely obliterate the industrial revolution that as near as I can tell pretty much destroyed education. But now we have a chance to go back to an earlier time where education was more of a one on one experience and the learning process was more of a search and more of a gathering of information and a putting of that information into some kind of a project or thought process that allows you to learn better.......it is the way Aristotle taught it's the way a cobbler teaches, it is the way a five year old learns , you know. There's a very basic way human beings learn. Its pretty simple, they have to have a reason to learn. You can't teach them in the abstract and they have to communicate with other people when they do they have to share their information with other people. They have to learn to work with other people. They have to motivate other people, to get other people they don't like to do what they want them to do. Emotional intelligence is more important in the success of a person than their intellectual intelligence. You don't get fired because you get along with people and you know how to get them to do things and you work with a group and you get along. You know, you can be semi intelligent and have a great job. You can be brilliant and not know how to communicate with anybody and not know how to get your ideas across and not have anybody like you and it ain't goanna work no matter how brilliant you are."(my emphasis) The Charlie Rose Show aired 9-14-2004
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“Dr. Brian Lynch clarifies and explains how we human beings might better understand ourselves with more patient acceptance of our basic emotions. I have found Dr. Lynch’s approach helpful personally, and have shared his insights with others who also find his ideas helpful. Dr. Lynch is most proficient in the art of communication that conveys a compassionate understanding of how we might go about having more positive than negative affective (emotional) experiences—an imbalance we all seek! His original and crisp methods of presentation also provide a delightful medium to learn about the many practical insights he shares with readers about what it means to be a more (rather than less) positively affective human being." Jim Duffy, Ph.D., Psychologist “Brian Lynch represents a tradition as old as medicine itself - the physician who takes care to learn how to treat some of the most difficult patients in his community……. He's working on a book that can make available to a wider audience much of what he teaches his patients, thus allowing a greater number of people to profit from what he has learned and developed. ……If Dr. Lynch has his way, more and more medical clinicians will be able to handle cases now thought untreatable, and that will be good for everybody………. ‘ Dr. Nathanson, M.D., Psychiatrist. Author: (1992), Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self, New York: W. W. Norton & Co.Shame and Pride: Affect, “Thanks for sharing
your book with me Brian. I have enjoyed reading it immensely. It's a book to be read thoroughly and
several times. “Dr Lynch has the gift of clear, uncomplicated
communication. He presents the hugely important work of Silvan Tomkins in a way
that anyone can comprehend. He provides an access key to understanding the
complexity of our emotions, so crucial to those in need of change and personal
development. Compulsive reading.” Brian J. Nuttall MSc. PG. Dip. Psychotherapy
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy Accredited Counsellor
United Kingdom Registered Counsellor
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