Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement.

Abstract

The first edition of this work, when it appeared in 1915, caused a great stir among the public and the scientists. It marked the transition between the psychology of the first fifteen years of the present century and the psychology of today. It brought the glands out into popular society and initiated, although itself scientific, a flood of pseudoscientific drivel on the subject that has not ceased. Now Dr. Cannon has brought his work up to date. Not much that is new has been added in the way of knowledge to his original chapters but five new chapters are offered covering such subjects as thirst, emotional derangement of the body functions, changes in the blood associated with emotions, and two chapters on theories of emotion. Perhaps the most important suggestion to the practitioner who should be familiar with this work is the following: "The assumption that emotional agencies are causing