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Marc Brackett, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine at Yale University. As a researcher for over 25 years, Marc has focused on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance. Marc is the author of the bestselling book, Permission To Feel (Celadon/Macmillan), which has been translated into 22 languages. Most recently, with Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann, Marc and his team co-created the Apple award-winning app, HowWeFeel, that was designed to teach emotion skills and enhance well-being.
Dealing with Feeling
Available for Pre-Order | Release Date: September 16, 2025
Success in virtually every aspect of life—career, friendships, love, and family—is determined mainly by one thing: how you deal with your feelings. In your most challenging moments, how did you respond? Did you fly off the handle? Were you paralyzed by indecision? Did you engage in behaviors that undermined your best intentions? Or did you exhibit grace under pressure and flourish? How you responded likely determined what happened next, but the way we handle our emotions is not, as many believe, a fixed part of ourselves. Rather, it is a set of skills and techniques that must be learned and refined across our lives.
Permission To Feel
“I cannot recommend Permission To Feel enough… practical, tactical, actionable. My favorite kind of book. I just loved it.” – BRENÉ BROWN
Permission to Feel (Celadon/Macmillan) inspires a new mindset around the power of emotions to transform our lives. Using science, passion, and lively storytelling, this book serves as a guide for understanding our own and others’ emotions, as well as provides innovative strategies for developing emotional intelligence in adults and children so that emotions help, rather than hinder, our success and well-being.
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“More than any other book on human feelings, Permission To Feel integrates psychological research, educational practice, and compelling stories, including Marc Brackett’s own life experiences, to make emotional intelligence come alive. This is one book that leaders, educators, parents, students, and researchers will all find valuable… and fun to read.”
PETER SALOVEY
PRESIDENT OF YALE UNIVERSITY AND CHRIS ARGYRIS PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Our Everyday Lives
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