'Mellow Out' They Say. If I Only Could.

Intensities and Sensitivities of the Young and Bright

by Michael M. Piechowski, Ph.D.

Foreword by Nicholas Colangelo, Ph.D.

Madison, WI: Yunasa Books, 2006

Contents
Foreword by Nicholas Colangelo

Acknowledgments

Part One. A Matter of Heart
    1. Emotional Development: The Great Unknown
    2. The Even Greater Unknown:
Emotional Development of the Gifted
    3. Excitable, Spirited, Very Alive

Part Two. Energy, Sensorium, and Intellect
    4. Five Channels
    5. Personal Energy
    6. Sensory Aliveness
    7. Intellectual Aliveness

Part Three. Imagination
    8. Imaginary and Imaginal—A Universe
of Unlimited Possibilities
    9. Absorption and the Power of Imaginal Experience
    10. Invisible Friends
    11. Imaginary Worlds

Part Four. Emotional Life
    12. The Primacy of Emotion and Feeling
    13. Emotional Aliveness
    14. Bonds of Affection
    15. Fears
    16. The Specter of Death
    17. Identity and Solitude

Part Five. Emotional and Spiritual Growth
    18. Two Types of Emotional Growth
    19. Gifted at Heart
    20. Personal Growth
    21. Spiritual Giftedness

Coda. Experiencing in a Higher Key

Notes
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Index