Jaak Panksepp, PhD, was the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, emeritus Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University, and the Head of Northwestern University's Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics. Lucy Biven trained at the Anna Freud Centre in London, and has served as Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy at the Leicestershire National Health Service in England. She is currently a reader for the Journal of Neuropsychoanalysis.
"[A] successful overview of the affective systems . . . . [O]f
interest not only to basic scientists interested in preclinical
modeling but also to clinicians and clinical researchers interested
in the neurobiology of addiction, emotional disorders, and novel
pharmacological and psychosocial interventions."
*Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease*
"[W]ill appeal to anyone who seeks to understand the origins of our
emotions and the mechanisms that tie our affective experiences to
our behaviors. Clinicians and psychotherapists are an obvious
potential audience. Panksepp and Biven . . . contend that an
affective neuroscience perspective has a lot to offer to
psychiatric research and practice. . . . [T]his text is accessible
to a host of researchers trained in that theoretical tradition,
including, but not limited to, the rapidly growing community of
evolutionary psychologists across diverse academic disciplines. . .
. [W]ould be appropriate reading for an advanced undergraduate
course or a graduate seminar across the many disciplines that are
now adopting neuroscientific methods of inquiry to study human
psychology and behavior."
*PsycCritiques*
"Integrative, judicious, creative, welcoming of divergent
perspectives, and very accessible, this is a grand synthesis and
should be part of every library. . . . Essential. "
*CHOICE*
"[A]n exhaustive work, covering a neglected and often misunderstood
field . . . . Nowhere else will you really find due diligence done
on the non-conscious biases of humans and animals . . . .
[E]ssential reading, not only to us as mind professionals, but to
teachers, parents, personal and physical trainers and coaches.
Emotions are still everything, and vital to understanding why we
are what we are, and why we do and have done, everything in the
past and now. An amazing buy."
*Metapsychology Online Reviews*
"The book will be of special interest to psychiatrists and other
mental health professionals, but it is also accessible to students,
parents, educators, and animal behaviorists. "
*Book News Inc.*
"This is a highly original and exciting book. The vital distinction
between eager anticipation and straightforward pleasure is only one
among many of its important findings. The implications for clinical
assessment and treatment, especially with depressed and cut-off
patients, are profound."
*Anne Alvarez, PhD MACP, Consultant Child and Adolescent
Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, London*
"Panksepp’s perspective on the continuity of animal and human minds
has not received the attention it deserves. Here are the collected
facts and the reasoning behind that compelling view. An
indispensable volume. "
*Antonio Damasio, author, Self Comes to Mind; David Dornsife
Professor of Neuroscience and Director, Brain and Creativity
Institute, University of Southern California*
"Immensely learned, consistently lucid, and truly groundbreaking.
This book repeatedly elicited my ‘ahhhh, yes.’ For Panksepp and
Biven, understanding the evolution of the brain holds the key to
solving large-scale mysteries about how the brain works. Thus, they
draw upon detailed comparisons of the behavior and functional
anatomy in mammals, from rodents to humans. The upshot is a
profoundly insightful theory, especially as it explains the complex
relation between the subcortical platform of motivations, emotions,
and automatic responses, and the evolutionary newcomer—the cortex—
whose sophisticated contribution to control, evaluation and
knowledge emerges as the brain learns and develops into
maturity."
*Patricia Smith Churchland, Professor Emerita, University of
California, San Diego*
"Jaak Panksepp is the most important theorist of mental life that I
have read since Freud. The impact of his scientific contributions
will be felt for decades to come. His findings—so lucidly
introduced in this accessible book with Lucy Biven—herald a new
Golden Age. They are almost bound to place 21st-century psychiatry
on a whole new foundation. In these pages, the supposed chasm
between mind and brain disappears before your eyes, the veil is
lifted, and new vistas appear before you. These vistas are the
future of the science of the mind."
*Mark Solms, editor of Freud’s Complete Works*
"This book has the capacity to integrate affective neuroscience
into the consciousness of not only therapists, but also those
interested in understanding depth motivation that sustains or
pathologizes our every action and thought. It is a truly pioneering
effort. Its deep truths about the origins of mind and feeling, and
the implications for altering how we see ourselves over
evolutionary time, connected to our fellow social mammals and
birds, also has implications for how we treat our fellow travelers
on this planet."
*Stuart Brown, MD, Founder and President, The National Institute
for Play*
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