Human Minds An Exploration Author:Margaret Donaldson Human Minds gives a powerful new theoretical account of the development of our minds from infancy onwards. A distinctive feature is the provision of a single framework within which the complex relationships between thought and emotion can be examined. — The central thesis of this book is that we have possibilities for emotional developme... more »nt which are as great as those open to the intellect. Emotional development however, has suffered much from cultural neglect. In considering how this has happened and what might be done about it, Margaret Donaldson turns from psychology to the history of the ideas and to a discussion of some features of the world's major religions, particularly Buddhism, her argument continually referring back to the psychological theory on which it is founded. Throughout there is a concern to see how gains in the understanding of human minds could yield gains in the living of human lives.« less