After 9/11: A Note to the Reader ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1

Part One: Emotion-Phobia
1. Listening to Pain 11
2. Vulnerability: The Power of No Protection 28
3. How Dark Emotions Become Toxic 45

Part Two: Emotional Alchemy
4. The Alchemy of Dark Emotions: Three Skills and Seven Steps 73
5. From Grief to Gratitude 90
6. From Despair to Faith 117
7. From Fear to Joy 165

Part Three: Emotional Ecology
8. We Live in the World and the World Lives in Us 207
9. Global Healing in a Brokenhearted World 242

Part Four: A Home Course in Emotional Alchemy
10. Thirty-three Emotional Exercises 265

Epilogue: Dark Emotions in an Age of Global Terror 295
Notes 301
Bibliography 305
Acknowledgments 311