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Why Love Matters How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain

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ISBN-10: 0415870534

ISBN-13: 9780415870535

Edition: 2nd 2015 (Revised)

Authors: Sue Gerhardt

List price: $19.99
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Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work. This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling book contains brand new research and a new chapter on prenatal factors.Sue Gerhardt considers how the earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous system, with lasting consequences, and how our adult life is influenced by infancy despite our inability to remember babyhood. She shows how the development of the brain can affect future emotional wellbeing, and goes on…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/9/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

SUE GERHARDT is a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She wrote the bestselling Why Love Matters, an accessible account of the neuroscience of early development.