Neurochemistry of romantic love
• Sexual Health
We don't have a thought or feeling that isn't a chemical event. Knowing that doesn't diminish human life a whit.
[Helen]Fisher is well known for her three previous books ( The Sex Contract, Anatomy of Love and The First Sex), which bring an evolutionary perspective to myriad aspects of sex, love, and sex differences. This book is the best, in my view, because it goes beyond observable behaviors to consider their underlying brain mechanisms. Most people think of romantic love as a feeling. Fisher, however, views it as a drive so powerful that it can override other drives, such as hunger and thirst, render the most dignified person a fool, or bring rapture to an unassuming wallflower.
Barbara Smuts, Scientific American: Using neurochemistry to try to unravel the experience of romantic passion