Best psychology books on love

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7 Essential Psychology Books

People often say that every painting, every poem, every novel or every song ever created is in someway about love. Love is a central theme in art and in our lives. Here are the 7 best books on the psychology of love that you should consider:. On iTunes at: itunes. She explains what we experience when we fall in love, why we choose a specific person and how romantic love affects your sex drive and your feelings of attachment to your partner. On Amazon at: amazon. It deals with a wide range of truly scientific aspects of love but the research covered is informative and fascinating.

But what exactly is love? How does its mechanism spur such poeticism, and how does it lodge itself in our minds, hearts and souls so completely, so stubbornly, as to permeate every aspect of the human imagination? On Love public library is precisely the kind of thoughtful, poetic, highly intelligent tome De Botton has grown famous for. Every fall into love involves [to adapt Oscar Wilde] the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping that we will not find in the other what we know is in ourselves — all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise and brute stupidity.

Of the three, observing others is the most powerful, but reading about the psyche helps inform our observations. You get the idea. In my opinion, this is problematic because the experimenters and researchers themselves are mostly unconscious to their behavior and impulses that they are attempting to observe in their sample groups. Plus, unconscious biases influence us in profound ways see Thinking Fast and Slow. Although this work is important and interesting, in my opinion, it fails to get to the core of why we do what we do. Johnson is a Jungian writer who possesses a remarkable gift for taking complex psychological ideas and making them understandable and relatable to laypeople like us. And he does it with gentleness and an economy of words.