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THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MIND - JAAK PANKSEPP LUCY BI...

A look at the seven emotional systems of the brain by the researcher who discovered them. What
makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us
with lust  anger  fear  or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have
yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience
approach -which takes into consideration basic mental processes  brain functions  and emotional
behaviors that all mammals share - to locate the neural mechanisms of emotional expression. It
reveals - for the first time - the deep neural sources of our values and basic emotional
feelings. This book elaborates on the seven emotional systems that explain how we live and
behave. These systems originate in deep areas of the brain that are remarkably similar across
all mammalian species. When they are disrupted  we find the origins of emotional disorders: -
SEEKING: how the brain generates a euphoric and expectant response - FEAR: how the brain
responds to the threat of physical danger and death - RAGE: sources of irritation and fury in
the brain - LUST: how sexual desire and attachments are elaborated in the brain - CARE: sources
of maternal nurturance - GRIEF: sources of non-sexual attachments - PLAY: how the brain
generates joyous  rough-and-tumble interactions - SELF: a hypothesis explaining how affects
might be elaborated in the brain The book offers an evidence-based evolutionary taxonomy of
emotions and affects and  as such  a brand-new clinical paradigm for treating psychiatric
disorders in clinical practice.

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