The New Understanding Of Mood And Emotion
When anger spills out of control, when we see red, it often finds expression in violence and crime. Turned inward, it leads to depression, to feeling blue. The problems fuelled by these extreme shades of mood and emotion are of enormous importance and universal interest - whether at a personal level or at the level of society as a whole.
Indeed depression and crime, born of anger and often aggravated by stress, seem to be reaching epidemic proportions. As more and more people find their lives coloured by either rage or depression, the costs to society are mounting.
