The Science of Desire
Title | The Science of Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Dean H. Hamer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Front-page headlines last July reported the discovery of a gene marker for male homosexuality. Now the scientist who made the discovery describes his history-making research and the far-reaching implications of this first genetic link to behavior.
The Psychology of Desire
Title | The Psychology of Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Wilhelm Hofmann |
Publisher | Guilford Publications |
Pages | 489 |
Release | 2016-06-29 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 146252768X |
Providing a comprehensive perspective on human desire, this volume brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines. It addresses such key questions as how desires of different kinds emerge, how they influence judgment and decision making, and how problematic desires can be effectively controlled. Current research on underlying brain mechanisms and regulatory processes is reviewed. Cutting-edge measurement tools are described, including practical recommendations for their use. The book also examines pathological forms of desire and the complex relationship between desire and happiness. The concluding section analyzes specific applied domains--eating, sex, aggression, substance use, shopping, and social media.
What Do Women Want?
Title | What Do Women Want? PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Bergner |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2013-06-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1782112588 |
In this headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women's desire on its head. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with renowned behavioural scientists, sexologists, psychologists and everyday women, Daniel Bergner asks: - Do women really crave intimacy and emotional connection? - Are women more disposed to sex with strangers or multiple partners than either science or society have ever let on? - And is 'the fairer sex' actually more sexually aggressive and anarchic than men?
The Mismeasure of Desire
Title | The Mismeasure of Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Stein |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2001-04-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0195142446 |
In recent years, scientific research & popular opinion have favoured the idea that sexual orientations are determined at birth, but Edward Stein argues that this may be wrong. This book offers an examination of contemporary thinking on this issue.
The Biology of Desire
Title | The Biology of Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Lewis |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2015-07-14 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1610394380 |
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease. But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing. Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it's supposed to do-seek pleasure and relief-in a world that's not cooperating. As a result, most treatment based on the disease model fails. Lewis shows how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery. This is enlightening and optimistic reading for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.
Dilemmas of Desire
Title | Dilemmas of Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah L. TOLMAN |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0674044363 |
Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't be a slut. These are the cultural messages that barrage teenage girls. In movies and magazines, in music and advice columns, girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone else's desire--but virtually never as someone with acceptable sexual feelings of her own. What teenage girls make of these contradictory messages, and what they make of their awakening sexuality--so distant from and yet so susceptible to cultural stereotypes--emerges for the first time in frank and complex fashion in Deborah Tolman's Dilemmas of Desire. A unique look into the world of adolescent sexuality, this book offers an intimate and often disturbing, sometimes inspiring, picture of how teenage girls experience, understand, and respond to their sexual feelings, and of how society mediates, shapes, and distorts this experience. In extensive interviews, we listen as actual adolescent girls--both urban and suburban--speak candidly of their curiosity and confusion, their pleasure and disappointment, their fears, defiance, or capitulation in the face of a seemingly imperishable double standard that smiles upon burgeoning sexuality in boys yet frowns, even panics, at its equivalent in girls. As a vivid evocation of girls negotiating some of the most vexing issues of adolescence, and as a thoughtful, richly informed examination of the dilemmas these girls face, this readable and revealing book begins the critical work of understanding the sexuality of young women in all its personal, social, and emotional significance.
An Interpretation of Desire
Title | An Interpretation of Desire PDF eBook |
Author | John Gagnon |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780226278582 |
Spanning Gagnon's work from the 1970s and extending through to the 1990s, these essays constitute an essential work on the study of sexuality in the twentieth century.