{"product_id":"on-romantic-love-9780190691998","title":"On Romantic Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRomantic 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[C]ompared to other introductory books analysing love, this book is incredibly well balanced. [...] Firstly, the interdisciplinarity of bringing up the true nature of love from the perspectives of science, philosophy, and sociology. Brogaard does not just simply show us the research results of various different academic fields, but also turns those into stories, and constructs her own opinions based on them. * Ōhata Hiroshi, Translated from Japanese by Hannah Kentridge *\u003cbr\u003eBrogaard's book is written to be accessible to general readers without sacrificing philosophical content. It offers more than enough interesting current theoretical work to merit serious attention by professional readers. Whimsical line drawings by illustrator Gareth Southwell add to the book's appeal. Essential. * Choice   *\u003cbr\u003e...Berit Brogaard's On Romantic Love is an achievement... Brogaard illustrates her arguments with acute philosophical intelligence, stylistic verve, and concrete human examples... She allows readers to engage in a very personal way with profound, contentious philosophical positions. She also navigates easily through the tempestuous technical waters of contemporary neurological research on love, which is where we might expect a flood of future insights. * The Chronicle of Higher Education   *\u003cbr\u003e...it is a helpful manual to be used in case of being harmed in love...\" * Metapsychology Online Reviews   *\u003cbr\u003e[A] good read, pacy and informative with a nice balance of narratives, debate overviews and claim staking. * The Philosophers' Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Chapter 1: Letter from a Friend  Chapter 2: 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  Chapter 3: The Philosophy of Love   Love as an Emotion   Basic and Complex Emotions  The James-Lange Theory   The Conjunctive Theory of Emotions   The Connection Problem   The Problem of Emotional Responses to Fiction   The Perceived-Response Theory  Chapter 4: Irrational Love   Does the Idea of Irrational Love Make Sense?   You Call It Madness, I Call It Love   Irrational Compassionate Love   Love as a Moral Emotion   Love as a History   Love and Personal Identity  Is Love Unconditional?  Love and Personal Identity  Love and Sex  Chapter 5: Relationships and Insecure Attachment  Avoidant Attachment Style   Secure Versus Insecure Attachment  Avoidant Attachment  Anxious Attachment  Childish Relationships  Jealousy and Anxious Attachment  Attachment and the Relationship Theory  Can Attachment Styles Change?  Familiar Love  Attachment Love  Can Animals Love?  The Other Dimension of Sex  Chapter 6: Our Unconscious Affections   Opponents of Unconscious Affection   Unconscious Affect   Unconscious Love   In Your Dreams  Is Love a Disposition  Chapter 7: He Is Just Not That into You (And Other In-Between Cases)   Prototype Theory   Non-Monogamous Love as In-Between Cases    \"Love\" is a Gradable Verb   He's Just Not That Into You   Ambivalence  Chapter 8: How To Fall Out of Love   Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche   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  Emotional Regulation as a Route to Happiness    The End: The Heart Wants What It Wants     References","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017588343127,"sku":"9780190691998","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190691998.jpg?v=1750774040","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-romantic-love-9780190691998","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}