Atlas of the Heart

这本书最引争议之处，在于它把「认识情绪」这件事做成了近乎词汇学的工程——八十七种情绪被逐一命名、分类、辨析。支持者视其为心理健康的必备入门：能给情绪准确命名，才谈得上管理情绪、理解他人。但不少读者也直言它读起来像「同义词大赏析」，甚至质疑：了解了这么多情绪名词，就能分辨别人的真实情绪吗？编辑以为，这正是它的价值所在，也是它的边界所在。它不承诺灵丹妙药，也不教你读心，而是提供一套精确的语言工具，让你先厘清自己内心的混沌。适合那些愿意慢下来、把模糊感受逐一命名的读者；急于寻求速效疗愈者，或许会失望。

Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation–Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She is also a visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. Brown has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers: Atlas of the Heart, The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and Dare to Lead, which is the culmination of a seven-year study on courage and leadership. With Tarana Burke, she co-edited the bestselling anthology You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience. She hosts the Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead podcasts, and her TEDx talk, “The Power of Vulnerability,” is one of the top five most-viewed TED talks in the world with more than 50 million views. Her Netflix special, The Call to Courage, is the first filmed lecture by a researcher on the streaming service. Brené Brown lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie.