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Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley, The Emotional Life of Your Brain. New York: Hudson Street Press, 2012.
Reviewed by Eric Sanchez Gomez
In this book, Davidson explains that our emotions, personalities, and traits have been created and formed from the unique shaping and structures of our brains. Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D. is a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Wisconsin. He has dedicated years to researching emotions and their connections to the brain. His work was controversial; some of his first findings were originally rejected, but then later published. History provides ample examples of similar or more destructive responses when novel understandings, including psychohistorical, have been presented. While this book discusses some very detailed and complicated...