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BOOK REVIEW
Ryan D. Foster, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University-Commerce
The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the
Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense by Michael A. Jawer with
Marc S. Micozzi, Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2009, 558 + 10 pp.,
$24.95 paperback, ISBN 978-1-59477-288-7; Kindle ed. $9.99 e-book.
As assistant editor for media reviews for the Journal of Near-Death
Studies, it is my responsibility to decide which books may or may not
be suitable for review in the Journal. We receive many invitations and
requests for reviews, and ultimately I must decide whether or not a
particular book is written with a scholarly focus, a precondition for
consideration for review, and might be of interest to our readers. From
time to time, I might decide to review a book myself because I have
interest in reading and learning about a topic with the potential to
extend my knowledge. Such was the case with Michael A. Jawer and
Marc S. Micozzi's (2009) book, The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion:
How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense.
About a year ago, this book came across my desk. I was unfamil-
iar with either author's prior works, and I was excited to anticipate
reading material from a point of view with which I was unfamiliar.
Additionally, as a counselor educator and practicing psychotherapist,
I am constantly on the search for material that will help me teach
future professional counselors and also help my own clients resolve
their emotional, cognitive, and spiritual struggles. According to the
back cover of the book, Jawer is an "emotion researcher and expert on
'sick building syndrome,"' and Micozzi is a noted author on alternative
medicine. I was excited to see what these authors had to say about the
structures of and connections between neurobiology, emotion, physiol-
ogy, and spirituality, so I decided to give the book a read.
Ryan D. Foster, Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, at the time of authoring this review, was ad
interim assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Counseling, and Spe-
cial Education and Director of the Harold Murphy Counseling Center at Texas A&M
University-Commerce. He is now assistant professor in the Department of Counseling
at Marymount University. Correspondence regarding this Review should be addressed
to Dr. Foster at Department of Counseling, Marymount University, 2807 N. Glebe
Road, Arlington, VA 22207; email: rfoster@marymount.edu.
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