Molecules of Emotion

The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine

Candace B. Pert

• Publisher: Scribner
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN:
  9781439124888
• Subtopic: Biografías de ciencias sociales

The bestselling and revolutionary book that serves as a “landmark in our understanding of the mind-body connection” (Deepak Chopra, MD).

Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health?

In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert—an extraordinary neuroscientist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of the opiate receptor—provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries.

Pert’s pioneering research on how the chemicals inside our bodies form a dynamic information network, linking mind and body, is not only provocative, it is revolutionary. By establishing the biomolecular basis for our emotions and explaining these scientific developments in a clear and accessible way, Pert empowers us to understand ourselves, our feelings, and the connection between our minds and our bodies—or bodyminds—in ways we could never possibly have imagined before. From explaining the scientific basis of popular wisdom about phenomena such as "gut feelings" to making comprehensible recent breakthroughs in cancer and AIDS research, Pert provides us with an intellectual adventure of the highest order.

Molecules of Emotion is a landmark work, full of insight and wisdom and possessing that rare power to change the way we see the world and ourselves.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
• Chapter 1: The Receptor Revolution: An Introductory Lecture
• Chapter 2: Romance of the Opiate Receptor
• Chapter 3: Peptide Generation: A Continued Lecture
• Chapter 4: Brains and Ambition
• Chapter 5: Life at the Palace
• Chapter 6: Breaking the Rules
• Chapter 7: The Biochemicals of Emotion: A Continued Lecture
• Chapter 8: Turning Point
• Chapter 9: The Psychosomatic Network: A Concluding Lecture
• Chapter 10: Child of the New Paradigm
• Chapter 11: Crossing Over, Coming Together
• Chapter 12: Healing Feeling
• Chapter 13: Truth
• Epilogue: Peptide T—The Story Continues
• Appendix A: Prevention-Oriented Tips for Healthful, Blissful Living
• Appendix B: Bodymind Medicine: Resources and Practitioners
• Glossary
• Recommended Reading
• Index
• Copyright