Graham Music

The Good Life

Wellbeing and the new science of altruism, selfishness and immorality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together a host of exciting new scientific discoveries from the fields of neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, developmental psychology, attachment theory, and social psychology, The Good Life aims to help us make sense of good and evil.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781848722262
• ISBN-10: 1848722265
• Artikelnr.: 39127622

Autorenporträt

Graham Music is Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman Clinics in London, UK, and an adult psychotherapist in private practice. At the Tavistock Clinic he leads in teaching on attachment, the brain and child development, organises training for therapists and other professionals, and teaches and supervises on a range of psychotherapy training in Britain and abroad. He currently works clinically at the Portman Clinic in forensic psychotherapy and has worked for two decades with the aftermath of abuse and neglect.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Primed for goodness. Attachments and helping others. How
empathy and altruism grow. Why stress can make us nasty. Impulsiveness,
self-regulation and aggression. Cold aggression, callousness and
psychopaths. A battle between emotion and reason. Hormones of cooperation
and competition. Evolved to both cooperate and compete. Moral games. Group
minded and narrow minded. Reputations, shaming, gossip and punishment.
Consumerism, society and our divided brain. Conclusions.