But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

Happy, calm children learn best

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels