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The archaeology of mind, neuroevolutionary origins of human emotions, Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven ; foreword by Daniel J. Siegel

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [501]-546) and index

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The archaeology of mind

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Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven ; foreword by Daniel J. Siegel

The Norton series on interpersonal neurobiology

neuroevolutionary origins of human emotions

Jaak Panskepp's lifework has revealed that all mammalian brains are composed of seven common emotional systems - seeking, lust, rage, fear, care, grief and play. This book provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the way in which these common systems guide emotional life in all mammals, including humans

Preface and acknowledgments -- Ancestral passions -- The evolution of affective consciousness : studying emotional feelings in other animals -- The seeking system : brain sources of eager anticipation, desire, euphoria, and the quest for everything -- The ancestral sources of rage -- The ancestral roots of fear -- Beyond instincts : learning and the affective foundations of memory -- Lustful passions of the mind : from reproductive urges to romantic love -- Nurturing love : the care system -- Born to cry : the panic/grief system and the genesis of life-sustaining social bonds -- Playful dreamlike circuits of the brain : the ancestral sources of social joy and laughter -- Toward a neurobiology of the soul : the core-self and the genesis of primary-process feelings -- Brain emotional systems and affective qualities of mental life : from animal affects to human psychotherapeutics -- Philsophical reflections and complaints : can we go from mice to men and back again? -- References -- Index