"Showing you how to think your way to happiness"

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

    Emotional Traps is a breezy but deliberate
    challenge to the modern emphasis on
    emotions over reason by someone who
    should know. Dr. Raymond J. Hill, a clinical
    psychologist and former Catholic priest,
    combines both essay and story to warn that
    this distortion of logic has led to the
    diminution of both professional and personal
    functioning. He begins by looking at the
    physical world and sorting out the differences
    between emotional and logical thinking—
    and asserts that society and the
    individuals within it function well only in
    proportion to a healthy balance between their intellect and emotions. He shows
    how three professions—attorneys, psychologists, and educators—have
    contributed greatly to the demise of logic in our society. He then examines how
    seven emotional traps keep individuals from taking responsibility for their actions
    and living happily. Dr. Hill then looks at the spiritual world by analyzing the
    universal religious construct of sin, utilizing solely philosophical and
    psychological principles. In the concluding section, he shows how the above all
    works when applied to ten real-life scenarios illustrating everyday quandaries.