Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel

ISBN-13: 9780684846347 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 368 str.

Candace B. Pert; Deepak Chopra

Opis

Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system?
In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries.
Her pioneering research on how the chemicals inside our bodies form a dynamic information network, linking mind and body, is not only provocative, it is revolutionary. By establishing the biomolecular basis for our emotions and explaining these new scientific developments in a clear and accessible way, Pert empowers us to understand ourselves, our feelings, and the connection between our minds and our bodies -- body-minds -- in ways we could never possibly have imagined before.
Molecules of Emotion is a landmark work, full of insight and wisdom and possessing that rare power to change the way we see the world and ourselves.

Recenzje

Caroline Myss, Ph.D. author of Why People Don't Heal and How They Can Candace B. Pert...has managed to take the study of the emotional connection to the body...and present this information in not only an understandable manner, but an enjoyable one.

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CONTENTS
Foreword by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
CHAPTER 1
The Receptor Revolution: An Introductory Lecture
CHAPTER 2
Romance of the Opiate Receptor
CHAPTER 3
Peptide Generation: A Continued Lecture
CHAPTER 4
Brains and Ambition
CHAPTER 5
Life at the Palace
CHAPTER 6
Breaking the Rules
CHAPTER 7
The Biochemicals of Emotion: A Continued Lecture
CHAPTER 8
Turning Point
CHAPTER 9
The Psychosomatic Network: A Concluding Lecture
CHAPTER 10
Child of the New Paradigm
CHAPTER 11
Crossing Over, Coming Together
CHAPTER 12
Healing Feeling
CHAPTER 13
Truth
EPILOGUE
Peptide T -- The Story Continues
APPENDIX A
Prevention-Oriented Tips for Healthful, Blissful Living
APPENDIX B
Bodymind Medicine: Resources and Practitioners
Glossary
Recommended Reading
Index

O autorze

Dr. Candace Pert (1946-2013) was an internationally recognized neuroscientist and pharmacologist who published over 250 research articles. She was featured in Bill Moyers's book and PBS series Healing and the Mind, in PBS's Healing Quest, and in Marci Shimoff's Happy for No Reason. She was a significant contributor to the emergence of Mind-Body Medicine as an area of legitimate scientific research in the 1980's, earning her the title of "The Mother of Psychoneuroimmunology," and "The Goddess of Neuroscience" by her many fans.