Why love matters : how affection shapes a baby's brain

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Title:

Author:

Gerhardt, Sue, 1953-

ISBN:

9781583918173

9781583918166

Personal Author:

Gerhardt, Sue, 1953-

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2004.

Physical Description:

ix, 246 p. ; 20cm.

Contents:

The foundations: babies and their brains. Back to the beginning -- Building a brain -- Corrosive cortisol -- Shaky foundations and their consequences. Trying not to feel -- Melancholy baby -- Active harm -- Torment -- Original sin -- Too much information, not enough solutions."If all else fails, hug your teddy bear" -- Birth of the future.

Subject Term:

Infants -- Development.

Infant psychology.

Brain chemistry.

Developmental neurobiology.

Brain -- Growth.

Parent and child.

Brain -- growth & development -- Infant.

Brain Chemistry -- Infant.

Emotions -- physiology -- Infant.

Hydrocortisone -- biosynthesis -- Infant.

Mental Disorders -- chemically induced -- Infant.

Mental Disorders -- prevention & control -- Infant.

Personality Development -- Infant.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003026871.html

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Summary

Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work.

Sue Gerhardt considers how the earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous system, with lasting consequences, and how our adult life is influenced by infancy despite our inability to remember babyhood. She shows how the development of the brain can affect future emotional well being, and goes on to look at specific early 'pathways' that can affect the way we respond to stress and lead to conditions such as anorexia, addiction, and anti-social behaviour.

Why Love Mattersis a lively and very accessible interpretation of the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis and biochemistry. It will be invaluable to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, mental health professionals, parents and all those concerned with the central importance of brain development in relation to many later adult difficulties.