"Showing you how to think your way to happiness"

    EMOTIONAL TRAPS
    How a Little Logic
    Can Change Your Life!
    Raymond J. Hill, Ph.D.


    TABLE OF CONTENTS:
    Preface

    Part One: Understanding the Human Condition
    1. Emotions: The Human Experience
    The Importance of Boundaries ... From Where Do Our Emotions Come? ...  
    A Personal Foolish Embracing of Emotions .... Can Emotions Be Physical?
    2. Logic: Guardian of the Emotions
    Logic and Its Gender-Based Vagaries ... The Professional Demise of Logic:
    Attorneys, Psychologists and Educators ...  A Thoughtful Proposal: The
    Statue of Responsibility
    3. How Emotions Only Recently Came To Dominate Logic
    The Rise of Cynicism... The Logic and Emotion of War
    4. Truth, The Slippery Beast
    Truth Itself
    5. Factors Influencing Behavior
    Genetics... Environment... Choice

    Part Two: Achieving a Balance in the Physical World and Overcoming
    Emotional Traps
    6. Let's Be Aware of the Real World
    Reality Check #1: What Do You Expect from a Team Member?
    Reality Check #2: What Do You Expect from Your Leaders?
    Reality Check #3: Is Specific Corruption Isolated from Society Corruption?
    7. Thinking Yourself Towards Mental Health
    8. Overcoming the Emotional Trap of Blind Ideology
    9. Overcoming the Emotional Trap of Anger
    Making Your Anger Appropriate... Controlling Your Environment... Why
    Are Young People So Angry? ... Getting Control of Your Anger
    10. Overcoming the Emotional Trap of Depression
    When Medication is Necessary... Beyond Medication: Therapy... And Self-
    Help
    11. Overcoming The Emotional Trap of Anxiety/Fear
    12. Overcoming the Emotional Trap of Pride
    13. Overcoming False Pride ... Pride and Humility
    14. Overcoming the Emotional Trap of Arrogance
    15. Overcoming the Denial of the Existence of Evil
    16. Overcoming Our Prejudices
    Racial Prejudice and the Collective Unconscious... Onward and Upward...
    The Second Civil War... What Do You Really Know about Another
    Individual?... Changing Your Ways
    17. Overcoming the Negative Influence of Money, Power, and Fame
    Sector One: Business... Sector Two: Hollywood... Sector Three: Media

    Part Three: Achieving a Balance in the Spiritual World
    17. Religion
    Pedophilia in the Church... Homosexuality in the Church... The Hierarchy
    and Its Role in Pedophilia... Celibacy ... Other Religions
    18. Avoiding Emotional Thinking in Governmental and Ecclesiastical Law
    Government Law... Religious Law... From Where Do We Get Morality?
    19. Using Logic in Theology
    20. Avoiding Emotional Thinking Regarding God's Judgment
    How Does God See It?... Sin Is More Than Behavior... An Aside on
    Homosexuality... Some Conclusions about Sin

    Part Four: Practical Applications in Logic
    21. Ten Scenarios
    Chris and Lisa: Marriage and Alcohol... Kay and Lynn: Afraid to Go to the
    Doctor... Tom and Mary: The World Is Flat ... Kevin and Shannan: How
    Many Reindeer?... Larry and Katie: Somebody's Wrong... Don and Gerri:
    Trying the Apricot Cure for Cancer... Felicia: Surviving after Molestation...
    Bob and Beth: At Odds over Hair Color... Galileo: The Earth Revolves
    around the Church... Carl and Eileen: Hard and Soft Sciences and Proof

    Afterword