- Topic Areas:
- Workshop
- Category:
- Couples Conference | Couples Conference 2004
- Faculty:
- Helen E. Fisher, PhD
- Duration:
- 1:51:10
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date :
- Mar 28, 2004
Description
Description:
This workshop discusses the brain circuitry of the three primary mating emotions: lust, attraction and attachment. It traces the evolution of these emotion systems and illustrates how their neural circuitry contributes to contemporary patterns of marital harmony and discord including adultery; divorce; stalking behavior; clinical depression due to rejection in love; and other issues brought to contemporary couples therapy.
Educational Objectives:
- To describe how data from biology, evolution and neuroscience explain human patterns of courtship and family life.
- To name three ways the three primary emotion systems contribute to intimacy, marriage and divorce.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
