Heartbreak : a personal and scientific journey / Florence Williams.
"When her twenty-five-year marriage suddenly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. But when she starts feeling physically sick, losing weight and sleep, she sets out in pursuit of rational explanation. She travels to the frontiers of the science of "social pain" to learn why heartbreak hurts so much - and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong. Searching for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, Williams tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, undergoes electrical shocks in a laboratory while looking at pictures of her ex, and ventures to the wilderness in search of awe as an antidote to loneliness. For readers of Wild and Lab Girl, Heartbreak is a remarkable merging of science and self-discovery that will change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781324003489
- ISBN: 1324003480
- Physical Description: viii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-296). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Shatter. Bridge to nowhere ; The heart ; Kindu kush ; A costly life event ; OG sin -- Alone. All pain is one malady: rejection ; Heartbreak hotel: grief ; Welcome to the eremocene: attachment ; Your cells are listening : The body doesn't lie ; Shaggy birds ; The wizards of lonesome -- Awe. Truth serum, part one ; High island: warmth ; Excuse my piloerection: the science of awe ; Split mountain ; Confluence ; The happiness that matters: social well-being ; Truth serum, part two ; The divorce drug ; Open sesame ; Man in the kastle: opioids, love, and the science of recovery ; The future of heartbreak ; The personality of the body ; A boat of lettuce. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Williams, Florence, 1967- Man-woman relationships. Separation (Psychology) Women > Psychology. Interpersonal relations. Women. Womyn. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. Self-help publications. |
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- 31 of 32 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Rockingham County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 32 total copies.
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| Eden Library | 306.7 W (Text) | 31554010844925 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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