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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Structure of the Brain | |
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| The Structure of the Brain | |
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| The Frontal Cortex and Feelings | |
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| The Limbic System | |
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| Overload and Shutdown: How We Repress | |
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| The Hippocampus | |
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| Messengers of the Brain | |
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| The Frontal Cortex: The Thinking Man's Brain | |
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| How an Angry Look Becomes a Chemical in Our Brain | |
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| Transcript of a Session | |
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| At the Crossroads: The Limbic System: The Thalamus, Amygdala, and Hippocampus | |
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| The Thalamus: Switchboard and Relay Station of the Brain | |
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| Organizing Memory: The Amygdala | |
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| The Dopamine Connection | |
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| The Amygdalae: Mother Nature at Work | |
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| Are We Conscious First and Then Unconscious? | |
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| The Repository of Truth | |
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| The Hippocampus: Accessing Childhood Memories | |
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| The Pain of Anorexia | |
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| Sandra's Story | |
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| The Brainstem: Instinct and Survival | |
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| The Work of the Frontal Cortex: On Developing Strange Ideas | |
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| Feeling Our Humanity | |
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| Sounding the Alarm: The Reticular Activating System | |
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| The Locus Ceruleus: At Terror's Center | |
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| The Hypothalamus: Carrying the Message of Feeling | |
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| The Cingulate Cortex | |
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| The Sympath and Parasympath: Shaping Personality in the Womb | |
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| A Therapy of Emotional Emergency | |
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| The Three Levels of Consciousness | |
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| First-Line Instinctual Consciousness | |
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| Steve | |
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| Myra | |
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| The Second-Line: Emotional Consciousness | |
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| The Third-Line: Intellectual Consciousness | |
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| The Hemispheres of Love: The Left and Right Hemispheres | |
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| Right-Brain Empathy | |
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| The Left Analytic Brain | |
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| The Battle in the Brain Between Ideas and Feelings | |
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| Nolan | |
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| Roger | |
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| The Chain of Pain | |
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| The Translation of Feelings into Symptoms | |
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| Suzanne | |
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| The Notion of Critical Periods | |
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| Synaptogenesis | |
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| The Focal Point of the Critical Period: The Dopamine Connection | |
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| The Loss of the Ability to Adapt | |
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| Womblife, Memory, and the Imprint | |
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| Imprinting Memory | |
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| The Long Story of Memory | |
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| Breaking the Code of Memory | |
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| Readjusting the Biological Setpoints | |
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| Damienne: Fill Me Up | |
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| The Trigger Effect | |
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| Just Get Over It! | |
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| Anoxia: An Imprint for Life | |
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| Oxygen Deficit and Stress for Life | |
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| Womblife: Prelude to Real Life | |
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| To Be Touched Is to Be Love | |
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| Mental Illness in the Womb | |
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| Suicide and Birth | |
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| Womblife and Later Illness | |
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| Pushing the Envelope | |
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| On Being Overwhelmed in the Womb | |
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| Chronic Fatigue in the Womb | |
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| The Birth Trauma: How It Directs Our Lives | |
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| Is the Unconscious Dangerous? | |
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| Dierdre | |
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| The Stress Factor: Building a Different Brain | |
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| The Gate-Control Theory | |
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| The Fear of Death | |
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| The Role of Serotonin in Gating Feelings | |
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| Organizing the Neural Troops | |
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| Alpha Sprouting: Building a Different Brain | |
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| Samantha | |
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| Penetrating the Gates of Repression | |
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| About Rita | |
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| The Administration of Drugs to the Mother and Damage to the Baby | |
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| Ken | |
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| The Power of Love | |
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| Love By Any Other Name | |
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| How to Love a Fetus | |
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| The Child Is Father to the Man | |
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| How Do You Love a Brain? | |
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| The Chemicals of Repression | |
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| The Power of Love | |
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| The Trauma of Being Unwanted | |
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| On the Nature of Feeling | |
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| Feelings Are Us | |
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| Lack of Oxygen Is the Lack of Love | |
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| Oxytocin and Vasopressin: The Hormones of Love | |
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| Love and Survival | |
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| Love and Nursing: The Transmission of Love through the Breast | |
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| The Lack of Touch Equals the Lack of Love | |
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| Love and Addiction: Addicted to Love | |
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| How Addiction Gets Its Start | |
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| Vasopressin | |
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| On Sexuality and Homosexuality | |
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| Little Boy Lost | |
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| Rage and the Impulse-Ridden | |
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| Sarah's Story | |
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| What's Love Got to Do with It? | |
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| Psychotherapy and the Brain: Getting the Brain Well | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Warning! | |
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| Index | |