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Interviewed on SF's BAY SUNDAY Aug 15th
From my Nevius interview..."You can see it in their eyes. They are horrified on your behalf. But often the same people come up afterward and say they have been unable to talk about their own mental illness." |
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Is your love life an out-of-control thrill ride?
The Chemistry of Love
A Primer on the Neuroscience of Relationships By Victoria Costello and Maryanne Fisher, Ph.D. Highlights from my latest co-authored title for Alpha Books' Complete Idiot's Guide series, due November, 2010 He calls every night, and you're crazy about him, but what might change if you sleep together? After a year with her, you thought things were fine, but then she left you for that loser with a big motorcycle; how long will it take to get over her? A couple celebrates their seventh wedding anniversary and both say the marriage is good; so why is he watching online porn while she fantasizes about a guy at the gym? We say our hearts are overflowing with joy. Or we bemoan our hearts breaking. But when it comes to love, the brain not the heart is the engine that gets romance started and keeps it going or grinds it to a halt. In reality, when it comes to love our biochemistry is in a working sometimes warring partnership with two million years of human evolution and our often hapless modern psyches. Go to MY WORKS TO READ MORE... 
From my Psychology Today blog, Awakening Psyche, Posted June 26th - Once or twice a week I leave my writerly nook and go out as part of a team of speakers to workplaces, community centers, high schools, universities and health centers to raise awareness about the harm done by continuing the stigma towards those in our society with a mental illness. After a few months on the SOLVE campaign, I'm aware that the problem is much bigger than I realized. For one thing, stigma towards the mentally ill is one of those prejudices that no one thinks they harbor, but, in fact, do. Part of the problem comes from not seeing the different forms it can take.
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