Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson - When elephants weep: the emotional lives of animals

HIGH PRAISE FOR
THE STUNNING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy

A REMARKABLY ENGAGING, SURPRISINGLY RICH
portrait of emotions in the animal kingdom, its wealth of anecdotal evidence belying the scientific (and religious) cant that beasts cannot feel anger, love, jealousy, relief, curiosity, compassion.... No matter how you feel about the animal rights movement, this book will give you pause.

Sun-Times (Chicago)

In this impassioned volume [Masson and McCarthy] argue their case with intriguing examples culled from scientific literature.... In addition to offering a fascinating array of animals, it convincingly argues that their emotional life is an area worthy of scientific exploration.

People

WITH CAREFUL DOCUMENTATION AND A COPIOUS BIBLIOGRAPHY, [MASSON AND McCARTHY] OFFER COMPELLING EVIDENCE that animals possess sensibilities similar to our own.... When Elephants Weep presents persuasive evidence that while humans many think of themselves as at the top of the food chain, to use a term popularized in The Lion King, emotions are not their exclusive domain.

Detroit Free Press

FASCINATING... It contains the beginnings of a badly needed perspective, perhaps even a reordering of priorities. As a bonus, it is a wonderful, quick tour of the animal kingdom. A kind of nature lovers rendezvous with reality.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

FASCINATING, MOVING, REVEALING. A wonderful read and a must-have for anyone who cares about, or is in awe of, animals.

Alex Pacheco, president, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)

A FASCINATING EXPLORATION of the question: Do animals experience emotions?... Anyone who ever has bonded with a pet has reached his own conclusion, of course, but those who enjoyed Elizabeth Marshall Thomass The Hidden Life of Dogs will find new grist for thought here.

Richmond Times Dispatch

Jeffrey Masson and Susan McCarthy... take a radically humane position, displaying with compelling anecdotes what they take to be the moral quality of animal sympathy and the dignity of animal suffering.

The New Republic

I enjoyed When Elephants Weep enormously and consider it a milestone in the battle to try and make Homo sapiens realize that he is only one member of an enormous family.

Farley Mowat, author, Never Cry Wolf and Woman in the Mists

[Masson and McCarthy] have done their research carefully and make a compelling case.

Diversion

POWERFUL, SENSITIVE AND THOROUGH, When Elephants Weep constitutes a milestone in the human effort to explore the mysteries in the hearts of our fellow creatures. Packed with moving, careful observations, the book exposes truths we can no longer afford to ignore: that other animals emotional experiences may be as rich and varied as our own, and their lives worthy of our respect and reverence.

Sy Montgomery, author, Walking with the Great Apes and Spell of the Tiger

The authors make a convincing case that animals have complex inner lives that are constantly manifesting themselves in our world.

Outside (Santa Fe, N.M.)

A TRULY REMARKABLE BOOK... A lucid and readable introduction to the concept of animal emotions. They succeed in bridging the gap between the scientist, who is reluctant to acknowledge evidence of animal emotion, and the layperson, who more readily speaks of animals in emotional terms.... Highly recommended.

Library Journal

When Elephants Weep continues and brings into the twentieth century the work that Darwin began on the emotional lives of animals. Masson and McCarthy are not afraid to ascribe to animals the emotions that we feel: fear and hope, love and grief, joy and rage, shame and compassion, even an appreciation of beauty and a religious impulse. More important, they provide the evidence to justify these claims. This is a book that will make you see animals in a different waythe right way.

Pete Singer, author, Animal Liberation

Also by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson:

MY FATHERS GURU:
A Journey Through Spirituality and Disillusion

FINAL ANALYSIS:
The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst

AGAINST THERAPY:
Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing

A DARK SCIENCE:
Women, Sexuality and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century

THE ASSAULT ON TRUTH:
Freuds Suppression of the Seduction Theory

THE OCEANIC FEELING:
The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India

THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF SIGMUND FREUD
TO WILHELM FLIESS 18871904
(Editor)

THE PEACOCKS EGG: Love Poems from Ancient India
(Translations by W. S. Merwin, Editor)

For the Fu
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