Molecules of Emotion
The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine. Why You Feel the Way You Feel
(Sprache: Englisch)
The bestselling and revolutionary book that serves as a "landmark in our understanding of the mind-body connection" (Deepak Chopra, MD).
Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health?
In her groundbreaking...
Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health?
In her groundbreaking...
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The bestselling and revolutionary book that serves as a "landmark in our understanding of the mind-body connection" (Deepak Chopra, MD).Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health?
In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert-an extraordinary neuroscientist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of the opiate receptor-provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries.
Pert's pioneering research on how the chemicals inside our bodies form a dynamic information network, linking mind and body, is not only provocative, it is revolutionary. By establishing the biomolecular basis for our emotions and explaining these scientific developments in a clear and accessible way, Pert empowers us to understand ourselves, our feelings, and the connection between our minds and our bodies-or bodyminds-in ways we could never possibly have imagined before. From explaining the scientific basis of popular wisdom about phenomena such as "gut feelings" to making comprehensible recent breakthroughs in cancer and AIDS research, Pert provides us with an intellectual adventure of the highest order.
Molecules of Emotion is a landmark work, full of insight and wisdom and possessing that rare power to change the way we see the world and ourselves.
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Chapter 1THE RECEPTOR REVOLUTION: AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE
Scientists, by nature, are not creatures who commonly seek out or enjoy the public spotlight. Our training predisposes us to avoid any kind of overt behavior that might encourage two-way communication with the masses. Instead, we are content to pursue our truth in windowless laboratories, accountable only to members of our highly exclusive club. And although presenting papers at professional meetings is encouraged, in fact required, it's rare to find one of us holding sway to standing-room-only crowds, laughing, telling jokes, and giving away trade secrets.
Even though I am a long-standing club member and bona fide insider myself, I cannot say that it has been my trademark to follow the rules. Acting as if programmed by some errant gene, I do what most scientists abhor: I seek to inform, to educate, and inspire all manner of people, from lay to professional. I try to make available and interpret the latest and most up-to-date knowledge that I and my fellow scientists are discovering, information that is practical, that can change people's lives. In the process, I virtually cross over into another dimension, where the leading edge of biomolecular medicine becomes accessible to anyone who wants to hear about it.
This mission places me in the public spotlight quite often. A dozen times a year, I am invited to address groups at various institutions, and so, when not engaged in my work at Georgetown University School of Medicine, where I am a research professor in the Department of Biophysics and Physiology, I go shuttling from coast to coast, sometimes even crossing the great blue waters. It was never my plan to become a scientific performer, to act as a mouthpiece for educating the public as well as practitioners in the alternative health movement, so wed was I for most of my career to the mainstream world of the lab and my research. But it's been a natural evolution, and I am now at home in my new role.
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The result of translating my scientific ideas into the vernacular seems to have been that my life in science and my personal life have transformed each other, so that I have become expanded and enriched in myriad unexpected ways by the discoveries I've made, the science I've done, and the meaning I continue to uncover.
Writing this book was an attempt to put down on paper, in a much more detailed and usable form, the material I've been presenting in lectures. My goal in writing, as in speaking, was twofold: to explain the science underlying the new bodymind medicine, and to give enough practical information about the implications of that science, and about the therapies and practitioners embodying it, to enable my readers to make the best possible choices about their personal health and well-being. Perhaps my journey, intellectual as well as spiritual, can help other people on their paths. And now -- on with the "lecture"!
ARRIVAL
Whenever possible I try to arrive at the lecture hall early, before the members of the audience take their seats. I get a thrill out of sitting in the empty room, when all is quiet and there exists a state of pure potentiality in which anything can happen. The sound of the doors swinging open, the muffled voices of the crowd as they file slowly into the room, the clinking of water glasses and screeching of chairs -- all of this creates a delightful cacophony, music to my ears, the overture for what is to come.
I watch the people as they move toward their seats, finding their places, chatting with a neighbor, and getting comfortable, preparing themselves to be informed, hopefully entertained, unaware that my goal is to do more: to reveal, to inspire, to uplift, perhaps even to change lives.
"Who's this Candace Pert?" I may ask, retaining my anonymity as I playfully engage the person now seated next to me. "Is she supposed to be any good?" The response is sometimes informative and always amusing, allowing m
Writing this book was an attempt to put down on paper, in a much more detailed and usable form, the material I've been presenting in lectures. My goal in writing, as in speaking, was twofold: to explain the science underlying the new bodymind medicine, and to give enough practical information about the implications of that science, and about the therapies and practitioners embodying it, to enable my readers to make the best possible choices about their personal health and well-being. Perhaps my journey, intellectual as well as spiritual, can help other people on their paths. And now -- on with the "lecture"!
ARRIVAL
Whenever possible I try to arrive at the lecture hall early, before the members of the audience take their seats. I get a thrill out of sitting in the empty room, when all is quiet and there exists a state of pure potentiality in which anything can happen. The sound of the doors swinging open, the muffled voices of the crowd as they file slowly into the room, the clinking of water glasses and screeching of chairs -- all of this creates a delightful cacophony, music to my ears, the overture for what is to come.
I watch the people as they move toward their seats, finding their places, chatting with a neighbor, and getting comfortable, preparing themselves to be informed, hopefully entertained, unaware that my goal is to do more: to reveal, to inspire, to uplift, perhaps even to change lives.
"Who's this Candace Pert?" I may ask, retaining my anonymity as I playfully engage the person now seated next to me. "Is she supposed to be any good?" The response is sometimes informative and always amusing, allowing m
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CONTENTS Foreword by Deepak Chopra, M.D.
CHAPTER 1
The Receptor Revolution: An Introductory Lecture
CHAPTER 2
Romance of the Opiate Receptor
CHAPTER 3
Peptide Generation: A Continued Lecture
CHAPTER 4
Brains and Ambition
CHAPTER 5
Life at the Palace
CHAPTER 6
Breaking the Rules
CHAPTER 7
The Biochemicals of Emotion: A Continued Lecture
CHAPTER 8
Turning Point
CHAPTER 9
The Psychosomatic Network: A Concluding Lecture
CHAPTER 10
Child of the New Paradigm
CHAPTER 11
Crossing Over, Coming Together
CHAPTER 12
Healing Feeling
CHAPTER 13
Truth
EPILOGUE
Peptide T -- The Story Continues
APPENDIX A
Prevention-Oriented Tips for Healthful, Blissful Living
APPENDIX B
Bodymind Medicine: Resources and Practitioners
Glossary
Recommended Reading
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Candace B. Pert
Dr. Candace B. Pert (1946-2013) was an internationally recognized neuroscientist and pharmacologist who played a key role in the discovery of the opioid receptor. Dr. Pert published over 250 research articles and was featured as an expert in Bill Moyers's PBS series Healing and the Mind, in PBS's Healing Quest. She was a significant contributor to the emergence of Mind-Body Medicine as an area of legitimate scientific research in the 1980s, earning her the title of "The Mother of Psychoneuroimmunology," and "The Goddess of Neuroscience" by her many fans. Translated into over ten languages, her bestselling book The Molecules of Emotion was a groundbreaking provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries. Deepak Chopra, MD, founder of the Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. Chopra is a clinical professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He is the author of more than ninety books, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Time magazine has described Dr. Chopra as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century."
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Candace B. Pert
- 2003, 368 Seiten, Maße: 21,431 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Scribner
- ISBN-10: 0684846349
- ISBN-13: 9780684846347
Sprache:
Englisch
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"A clear and often riveting account of her research on the frontier of a new kind of science." -Smithsonian"Pert is at her best here when she details the sexism that permeates the upper echelons of the scientific establishment... She also does a very credible job of exploding the basic paradigm underlying much of modern human biology-that the brain and the body are two distinct systems...this is an important look at what really goes on inside the human body-and inside the scientific elite." -Publishers Weekly
"[Pert] freely intermingles vibrant stories of her professional and personal life with her theories about neuropeptides...Her views on mind-body cellular communication mesh well with the concepts of energy held by many alternative therapies." -Kirkus
"Candace B. Pert...has managed to take the study of the emotional connection to the body...and present this information in not only an understandable manner, but an enjoyable one." -Caroline Myss, Ph.D., author of Why People Don't Heal and How They Can
"Reading Molecules of Emotion filled me with molecules associated with joy, inspiration, and hope." -Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"Molecules of Emotion is a highly inspiring story of the search for the biochemical links between consciousness, mind, and body that also weaves in Pert's deeply personal search for truth. Highly recommended!" -Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Eat More, Weigh Less
"Pick up the coolest, smartest, hardest-core mind-body book I've seen in a while." -Lynn Harris, New York Daily News
"Dr. Pert has written one of the few truly spellbinding autobiographies of a scientist's life and discoveries that, remarkably, impels one to read and turn pages with the same urgency one applies to Michael Crichton's science fiction! This experience is all the more fascinating since Dr. Pert's story is true. She is the new Carl Sagan of
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the biomedical enterprise." -Michael D. Lumpkin, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center
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