
Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work.Sue Gerhardt considers how the earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous system, with lasting consequences, and how our adult ...
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 22, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1583918175
ISBN-13: 978-1583918173
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 500129
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Profoundly EnlighteningSue Gerhardt’s Why Love Matters is an important book that addresses the crucial issue of what we need to recognize if we are to be more understanding of ourselves and each other and promote the health and well-being of future g...
luenced by infancy despite our inability to remember babyhood. She shows how the development of the brain can affect future emotional well being, and goes on to look at specific early 'pathways' that can affect the way we respond to stress and lead to conditions such as anorexia, addiction, and anti-social behaviour.Why Love Matters is a lively and very accessible interpretation of the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis and biochemistry. It will be invaluable to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, mental health professionals, parents and all those concerned with the central importance of brain development in relation to many later adult difficulties.