A General Theory of Love
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · January 9, 2001
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- Who it’s for
- A lucid account of intimacy brings brain science into conversation with art and thought.
- Themes
- Love and human well-being, Emotional bonds and brain development, Parent-child influence
- Genres
- Relationships, Neuroscience, Love & Romance
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This original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain.
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A General Theory of Love demonstrates that our nervous systems are not self-contained: from earliest childhood, our brains actually link with those of the people close to us, in a silent rhythm that alters the very structure of our brains, establishes life-long emotional patterns, and makes us, in large part, who we are. Explaining how relationships function, how parents shape their child’s developing self, how psychotherapy really works, and how our society dangerously flouts essential emotional laws, this is a work of rare passion and eloquence that will forever change the way you think about human intimacy.
Love, Reconsidered
A lucid account of intimacy brings brain science into conversation with art and thought.
Come here for
- A view of love grounded in both humanistic insight and neuroscience
- A thoughtful look at how close relationships shape us
Expect
- Connections between early bonds, emotional patterns, and the developing self
- A wide-ranging account of relationships, psychotherapy, and emotional life
Where it sits
| Love & Romance | 54% |
|---|---|
| Neuroscience | 36% |
| Relationships | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Emotions
- Neuroscience
- Marriage & Family
- Authors
- Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- January 9, 2001
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Love and human well-being · Emotional bonds and brain development · Parent-child influence
- Reading lane
- Emotions