On Romantic Love : Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion.

Cover -- ON ROMANTIC LOVE: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. DANGEROUS LIAISONS: LETTER FROM A FRIEND -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 -- 4. 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? -- 5. WHY WAS I HOLDING ONTO SOMETHING THAT WOULD NEVER BE MINE?: RELATIONSHIPS AND LOV EATTACHMENT -- 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? -- 6. 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? -- 7. 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 -- 8. I'D DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE (BUTI WON'T DO THAT): LOVE AND SEX -- Non-Monogamous Love as In-Between Cases -- Love and Casual Sex.

The Other Dimension of Sex -- 9. 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 -- 10. 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 -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Written with a general audience in mind, On Romantic Love offers a new theory of love as a partially unconscious, sometimes rational and always controllable emotion, while explaining some of the neuroscience underlying our wildest passions.

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