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The Archaeology of Mind

Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions

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The Archaeology of Mind

By: Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven, Daniel J. Siegel - foreword
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
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What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach - which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviors that all mammals share - to locate the neural mechanisms of emotional expression. It reveals - for the first time - the deep neural sources of our values and basic emotional feelings.

This book elaborates on the seven emotional systems that explain how we live and behave. These systems originate in deep areas of the brain that are remarkably similar across all mammalian species. When they are disrupted, we find the origins of emotional disorders.

The book offers an evidence-based evolutionary taxonomy of emotions and affects and, as such, a brand-new clinical paradigm for treating psychiatric disorders in clinical practice.

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©2012 Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven (P)2021 Tantor Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Emotions Human Brain Mental Health Health Affective Neuroscience
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Excellent book that nicely straddles the space between "pop-science" (Seven Effective Ways to....blah blah blah) and a collection of technical papers.
It's very much in the way of an overview/summary of the situation with respect to the role of emotions/affect in consciousness and the neural mechanisms by which they execute that role.
The other big subject which isn't mentioned in the title is the author's strong conviction that all mammals experience affect and emotions. He is quite convincing in this.
As others have mentioned, the narration is very robotic and, ironically, emotionless. If the recording was post-2023, I would think it was AI. Nevertheless the content managed to overcome that handicap, just.

Wonderful content if you can cope with the narrati

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Amazing book bringing light to a very difficult topic. Lots of examples, interpretation and context. Had to listen in 1.25 x mode.

Worth reading/listening to

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Amazing book and so informative although the narrator hardly pass the Turing test.
There is no way for someone however advance he she is not to learn anything from this book.
If you are not into details and terminology and stuff skip to the last two chapters

Great job

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Excellent content with atrocious narration. I admire the athor’s, essential information (that I found hard to understand) which requires exceptional narration but this was the most mechanical and grating reading I have listened to. (Due to ‘strokes’ I have to use audio because I can no longer read and retain).

Exceptional content with atrocious narration.

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Panksepp’s work is absolutely quintessential in the study of Therapeutic practice but the writing is far from scintillating made exponentially worse by a narrator that sounds like early generation Text to speak.

Essential reading for anyone working in Therapy fields, but…

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