The Mechanics of Passion: Brain, Behaviour, and Society

by Alain Ehrenberg

Cognitive neuroscience, once a specialized area of psychology and biology, has enjoyed increased worldwide legitimacy in the last thirty years not only in psychiatry and mental health, but also in fields as diverse as education, economics, marketing, and law. How can this surge in popularity be explained? Has the new science of human behaviour now become the barometer of our conduct and our lives, taking the place previously occupied by psychoanalysis?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228003423
• ISBN13: 9780228003427
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"