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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
by Joseph Ledoux
from Simon & Schuster

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• The Emotional Brain...
  This appears to be an excellent study about human emotions but I am having a very difficult time plowing through this book. This is some of the most high-brow reading I have done for some time. This is not entertaining and should not be purchased for that purpose. I hope to be able to finish this book but at the rate I am going, I'm not sure how soon that might occur. This is a well-written, well-researched book but perhaps it takes a special brain to assimilate all of this information. I can see how this... more info

• an important read for those wondering re addictions
  To understand the "NOW" questions re addictions, therapist should be informed re "emotional life" and neurotransmitters--in the Limbic Brain System. Most health care is moving to the cellular level.
  DNA information is increasing -- but not at the time this book was written.

• Fascinating
  As a mental health practitioner, I am constantly reminded that much of what people present as emotional difficulties are more accurately described as neurological difficulties. LeDoux's writing is articulate, timely, and extremely useful clinically. When I first heard about this work when I was in grad school, it literally changed the way I thought about such common mental illnesses as depression and (most of all) anxiety. I would be MUCH less successful in my treatment of these disorders now if I did not... more info

• A needed book of emotions and their role in the brain
  Having read LeDoux's other work, I was pleased with this work, much as I enjoyed his previous work. In this book LeDoux explores the role of emotions in neuroscience. He does a fairly thorough job of explaining the history of the study of emotions through both psychology and neuroscience. I found his arguments about the limbic system persuasive, and his analysis of fear and also the memory intriguing.
  If there's one complaint I have, it's that I wish he'd focused on other emotions besides fear. He... more info

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