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Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to
brain development in the early years, and how these early
interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and
physical health. This second edition follows on from the success of
the first, updating the scientific research, covering recent
findings in genetics and the mind/body connection, and including a
new chapter highlighting our growing understanding of the part also
played by pregnancy in shaping a baby's future emotional and
physical well-being. The author focuses in particular on the
wide-ranging effects of early stress on a baby or toddler's
developing nervous system. When things go wrong with relationships
in early life, the dependent child has to adapt; what we now know
is that his or her brain adapts too. The brain's emotion and immune
systems are particularly affected by early stress and can become
less effective. This makes the child more vulnerable to a range of
later difficulties such as depression, anti-social behaviour,
addictions or anorexia, as well as physical illness.
Ambitious and wide-ranging, The Selfish Societyreveals the vital
importance of understanding our early emotional lives, arguing that
by focusing on the attention we give to our young children we can
create a better society. Open any newspaper,and what do you find?
Violence and crime, child abuse and neglect, expenses scandals,
addiction, fraud and corruption, environmental melt-down Is Britain
indeed broken? How did modern society get to this point? Who is to
blame? How can we change? We have come to inhabit a culture of
selfish individualism which has confused material well-being with
happiness. As society became bigger and more competitive, working
life was cut off from child-rearing and the new economics ignored
people's emotional needs. We have lived with this culture so long
that it is hard to imagine it being any different. Yet we are now
at a turning point where the need for change is becoming urgent. If
we are to build a more reflective and collaborative society,
Gerhardt argues, we need to support the caring qualities that are
learnt in early life and integrate them into our political and
economic thinking. Inspiring and thought-provoking, The Selfish
Society sets out a roadmap to a more positive and compassionate
future.
Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to
brain development in the early years, and how these early
interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and
physical health. This second edition follows on from the success of
the first, updating the scientific research, covering recent
findings in genetics and the mind/body connection, and including a
new chapter highlighting our growing understanding of the part also
played by pregnancy in shaping a baby's future emotional and
physical well-being. The author focuses in particular on the
wide-ranging effects of early stress on a baby or toddler's
developing nervous system. When things go wrong with relationships
in early life, the dependent child has to adapt; what we now know
is that his or her brain adapts too. The brain's emotion and immune
systems are particularly affected by early stress and can become
less effective. This makes the child more vulnerable to a range of
later difficulties such as depression, anti-social behaviour,
addictions or anorexia, as well as physical illness.
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