We are all touched sooner or later with the dark feelings of grief, fear, or despair. In a day and time of global danger, these emotions have become widespread and overwhelming. While conventional intelligence warns us of the harmful effects of ‘harmful’ emotions, this revolutionary reserve offers a far more hopeful view: there is a redemptive power inside our most severe emotions. Seasoned psychotherapist Miriam Greenspan argues that it’s the avoidance and denial of the dark emotions that results in the escalating psychological disorders of our period: depression, stress and anxiety, craving, psychic numbing, and irrational violence. And she shows us how to trust the wisdom of the dark emotions to steer, heal, and transform our lives and the world.