A General Theory of Love (2013 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 20 August 2024
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February 15, 2013
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is about love. It is Valentine's Day today, so of course in a very pretentious and predictable manner I am having a podcast on love. |
| 0:11.5 | And more specifically, this episode is a book review of a book called |
| 0:16.6 | a General Theory of Love published in 2000 by Random House, Thomas Lewis, Fari, Amini, and Richard Lannen wrote this book. |
| 0:27.0 | They examined the phenomenon of love and attachment by synthesizing the previous separate fields of cognitive psychology, art, culture, |
| 0:37.4 | neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. |
| 0:41.1 | I would say that the book very easily |
| 0:43.0 | sway back and forth from romantic sentiment to cutting-edge |
| 0:46.6 | scientific research. The style of the book lies within a happy |
| 0:52.1 | medium between stagnant scientific journals and accessible |
| 0:56.8 | self-health books. In this way I believe the book would appeal to both |
| 1:00.5 | academics and non-academics alike. The book is tremendously popular. |
| 1:06.0 | Evidence of this is that it has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Latvian, Croatian, and Farsi. |
| 1:14.0 | And I had this book out on my coffee table, |
| 1:17.0 | and a client happened to see it there, |
| 1:21.0 | and she said, oh, I read read that book and I really loved it when I picked up this book to read I didn't realize that it was as popular as it is and and and after reading it I guess I can see why it's popular, but I mean it's a good book for sure and it certainly appeals to someone like me, but I'm surprised that it appealed to a wide audience, I guess. |
| 1:40.0 | Because larger audiences usually aren't interested in science but after reading the book I realize why it's interesting is because it because it's in this sweet spot between science and the sort of writing that appeals to larger audiences if that makes any sense. |
| 1:54.0 | So I'm just gonna summarize the four main points of the book as far as I can tell. |
| 1:58.0 | The four main points of the book are one, our brains are affected by those closest to us, particularly during childhood. |
| 2:06.8 | So the first main point is that our brains, our actual brains, are affected by those closest to us, you know, our parents particularly in |
| 2:15.4 | childhood. Our brains are affected by later relationships but not as much as |
| 2:19.6 | those relationships that we have in our early childhood. |
| 2:23.0 | The second main point of the book is that within intimate relationships, |
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