| Description |
xvi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
Philosophy in action |
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Philosophy in action.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index. |
| Contents |
Dangerous liaisons : a letter from a friend -- Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love: the chemistry of love : Your brain on crack ; Beliefs and brain chemistry ; Taking the drug away ; Addicted to grief ; Emotional pain ; Stress, pimples, and gray hair ; Love and hate -- I have feelings too: the philosophy of love : Love as an emotion ; Basic and complex emotions ; Is love a bodily sensation? ; Uniting body and world ; Strange connections ; Emotional responses to fiction ; Perceived responses -- Hopelessly devoted to you: irrational love : Does the idea of irrational love make sense? ; You call it madness, I call it love ; Irrational compassionate love ; The transcendent view of love ; Love as a history ; Personal identity and the value of our beloveds ; Is love unconditional? -- Why was I holding onto something that would never be mine?: relationships and love attachment : Secure versus insecure attachment ; Childish relationships ; Avoidant attachment ; Anxious attachment ; Familiar love ; Jealousy and anxious attachment ; Avoidance and love as a history ; Can attachment styles change? ; Attachment love ; Can animals love? -- |
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye: unconscious love : Opponents of unconscious affection ; Unconscious affect ; Two emotional pathways ; Unconscious love ; In your dreams ; Is love a disposition? -- He's just not that into you: and other in-between cases of love : Prototypes ; "Love" is gradable ; He's just not that into you ; Love and ambivalence -- I'd do anything for love (but I won't do that): love and sex : Non-monogamous love as in-between cases.; Love and casual sex ; The other dimension of sex -- Un-break my heart: how to fall out of love. Never mind searching for who you are: search for the person you aspire to be ; Psychoanalysis and talk therapy ; Emotional regulation and avoidance behavior ; The repetition technique ; Prolonged exposure therapy ; Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing ; Deep relaxation and meditation ; Heartbreak and placement conditioning ; The Sinclair Method ; Out, damned spot: using soap to wash away your negative feelings -- Happiness is love, full stop: love, marriage, and the pursuit of happiness : Emotional regulation as a route to happiness ; Negative thinking as a path to happiness? ; Marriage and happiness ; Love and happiness -- Sometimes the heart wants what it wants: the end. |
| Summary |
"Romantic love presents some of life's most challenging questions. Can we choose who to love? Is romantic love rational? Can we love more than one person at a time? And can we make ourselves fall out of love? In On Romantic Love, Berit Brogaard attempts to get to the bottom of love's many contradictions. This short book, informed by both historical and cutting edge philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, combines a new theory of romantic love with entertaining anecdotes from real life and accessible explanations of the neuroscience underlying our wildest passions. Against the grain, Brogaard argues that love is an emotion; that it can be, at turns, both rational and irrational; and that it can be manifested in degrees. We can love one person more than another and we can love a person a little or a lot or not at all. And love isn't even always something we consciously feel. However, love - like other emotions, both conscious and not - is subject to rational control, and falling in or out of it can be a deliberate choice. This engaging and innovative look at a universal topic, featuring original line drawings by illustrator Gareth Southwell, illuminates the processes behind heartbreak, obsession, jealousy, attachment, and more."--Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Love.
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Love. (OCoLC)fst01002769
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| ISBN |
9780199370733 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
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0199370737 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
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