恩斯特.波佩尔（Ernst Poppel），哲学博士、教授，于1940年生于波莫瑞（今属波兰）的施韦森城。他曾在弗莱堡学习文学、历史和哲学，随后在联邦德国海军服役两年。1962年至1968年，他先后在因斯布鲁克、弗莱堡和慕尼黑学习心理学和动物学，并于1968年获得心理学博士学位。
1974年，他在慕尼黑大学医学院获得感觉生理学教授资格，1976年，在因斯布鲁克大学理学院获心理学教授资

Emotion research has become a mature branch of psychology, with its own standardized measures, induction procedures, data-analysis challenges, and sub-disciplines. During the last decade, a number of books addressing major questions in the study of emotion have been published in response to a rapidly increasing demand that has been fuelled by an increasing number of psychologists whose research either focus on or involve the study of emotion. Very few of these books, however, have presented an explicit discussion of the tools for conducting research, despite the facts that the study of emotion frequently requires highly specialized procedures, instruments, and coding strategies, and that the field has reached a place where a large number of excellent elicitation procedures and assessment instruments have been developed and validated. The Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment corrects this oversight in the literature by organizing and detailing all the major approaches and instruments for the study of emotion.It is the most complete reference for methods and resources in the field, and will serve as a pragmatic resource for emotion researchers by providing easy access to a host of scales, stimuli, coding systems, assessment tools, and innovative methodologies. This handbook will help to advance research in emotion by encouraging researchers to take greater advantage of standard and well-researched approaches, which will increase both the productivity in the field and the speed and accuracy with which research can be communicated.

本书全面易懂地介绍了自弗洛伊德以来现代精神分析思想发展的历史,内容涵盖了现代精神分析思想所有的主要分支,如弗洛伊德经典精神分析、自我心理学、人际精神分析等,对各学派的缘起、流变作了清晰的阐述。

上帝能否创造一块他自己也举不动的石头？如果他不能创造这么一块石头，显然他不是万能的。如果他创造了这么一块石头，那么他将举不起来，所以他不是万能的。上面的这个悖论的价值不仅仅是一个逻辑游戏。悖论像是撕开遮盖着真理殿堂的帷幕的一条裂口，让人如此诧异，却又难以捉摸。哲学进步的历史伴随着一个又一个惊艳悖论的迸现和解决。作者用悖论的方式叙述了三千年的哲学历程，让人们切身感受到哲学每一次进步所面对的复杂困境，以及哲人们突破这种孤绝之境的犀利智慧。