Description
In Love at Goon Park, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum charts a profound cultural shift from how doctors discouraged parents from touching their children to when that belief was overturned, and in doing so proved the emotional and intellectual benefits of touch. Through studying neglect and its life-altering consequences on primates in his lab, Harry Harlow confirmed love's central role in shaping not only how we feel but also how we think. The story of an evolution of both a man and an idea, Love at Goon Park ultimately invites us to examine ourselves and the way we love.
Author: Deborah Blum
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 07/05/2011
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.64w x 1.01d
ISBN13: 9780465026012
ISBN10: 046502601X
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Developmental | Lifespan Development
- Psychology | Interpersonal Relations
- Psychology | History
About the Author
Deborah Blum is the New York Times bestselling author of The Poisoner's Handbook. She also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her second book, Sex on the Brain, was a New York Times Notable Book for 1997. She lives with her family in Madison, Wisconsin.