Heartbreak a personal and scientific journey

"Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ways to mend her own. When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that she'll end u...

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Main Author: Williams, Florence, 1967- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.