Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love, Giovanni Frazzetto
Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love, Giovanni Frazzetto
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Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love
What Neuroscience Can-and Can't-Tell Us About How We Feel

Author: Giovanni Frazzetto

Narrator: Giovanni Frazzetto

Unabridged: 9 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/01/2014


Synopsis

Is science ever enough to explain why we feel the way we feel?

In this engaging account, renowned neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto blends cutting-edge scientific research with personal stories to reveal how our brains generate our emotions. He demonstrates that while modern science has expanded our knowledge, investigating art, literature, and philosophy is equally crucial to unraveling the brain’s secrets. What can a brain scan, or our reaction to a Caravaggio painting, reveal about the deep seat of guilt? Can ancient remedies fight sadness more effectively than antidepressants? What can writing poetry tell us about how joy works? Structured in seven chapters encompassing common human emotions—anger, guilt, anxiety, grief, empathy, joy, and love—Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love offers a way of thinking about science and art that will help us to more fully understand ourselves and how we feel.

Reviews

The relationship between the scientific working of the brain and the impact on emotions has been brought out nicely. The recent developments in neuroscience have helped us understand us better and also find ways of being in a particular state of emotion. Am sure this is a pioneering effort and needs......more

A real renaissance mix of art, philosophy, and science. The author casually drops mention of his relationship with another man in the last chapter (on love). Which is as it should be, sexuality doesn't make a difference to science. I also have thoughts about the moral dilemma he presents in the chap......more

Goodreads review by Claudia

“Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love: What Neuroscience Can and Can’t Tell Us About How We Feel” is an alluring book that consists of a mix with intricate research on how neuroscience is behind emotions along with readable, personal stories. This book gives insight on how our emotions might work which is someth......more