The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain
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As human beings, we cherish our individuality yet we know that we live in constant relationship to others, and that other people play a significant part in regulating our emotional and social behavior. Although this interdependence is a reality of our existence, we are just beginning to understand that we have evolved as social creatures with interwoven brains and biologies. The human brain itself is a social organ and to truly understand being human, we must understand not only how we as whole people exist with others, but how our brains, themselves, exist in relationship to other brains. The first edition of this book tackled these important questions of interpersonal neurobiology--that the brain is a social organ built through experience--using poignant case examples from the author's years of clinical experience. Brain drawings and elegant explanations of social neuroscience wove together emerging findings from the research literature to bring neuroscience to the stories of our lives. Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, the field of social neuroscience has grown at a mind-numbing pace. Technical advances now provide more windows into our inner neural universe and terms like attachment, empathy, compassion, and mindfulness have begun to appear in the scientific literature. Overall, there has been a deepening appreciation for the essential interdependence of brain and mind. More and more parents, teachers, and therapists are asking how brains develop, grow, connect, learn, and heal. The new edition of this book organizes this cutting-edge, abundant research and presents its compelling insights, reflecting a host of significant developments in social neuroscience. Our understanding of mirror neurons and their significance to human relationships has continued to expand and deepen and is discussed here.
ISBN
9780393707823, 0393707822
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
City
New York
Keywords
Attachment, Behavior, Developmental Psychology, Interpersonal Relations, Neuropsychology
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Cozolino, Louis J., "The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain" (2014). Faculty Books. 178.
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/facultybooks/178