The Emotional Manual

The Emotional Manual

Stop managing your emotions.
Start understanding them.

The Emotional Manual is a rigorous, deeply human essay grounded in neuroscience, biology, and phenomenology — for those who want to understand what they feel, not control it.

An essay by Pierre Dufraisse

The book

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The book

A rigorous essay at the crossroads

Biology of living systems
Neuroscience
Autopoiesis
Enaction
Free energy principle
Phenomenology

The Emotional Manual starts from a radical hypothesis: emotions are not disturbances to manage. They are adaptation signals from the living — biologically grounded, phenomenologically real, operationally useful.

Not a therapy. Not a self-help method. Not a biohacking guide. An essay that thinks rigorously — and that acts.

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The method

Four movements

01

Listen

02

Anticipate

03

Update

04

Act

English edition

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