Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 046502601X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Love at Goon Park, Pulitzer Prize winner Deborah Blum charts this profound cultural shift by tracing the story of Harry Harlow—the man who studied neglect and its life-altering consequences on primates in his lab. The biography of both a man and an idea, Love at Goon Park ultimately invites us to examine ourselves and the way we love.. It took a revolution in psychology to overturn these beliefs and prove that touch ensures emotional and intellectual health. In the early twentieth century, affection between parents and their children was discouraged—psychologists thought it would create needy kids, and doctors thought it would spread infectious disease
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly In this surprisingly compelling book, Blum (The Monkey Wars) reveals that many of the child-rearing truths we now take for granted infants need parental attention; physical contact is related to emotional growth and cognitive development were shunned by the psychological community of the 1950s. His first marriage ended because his wife, who had given up her own promising scientific career, felt he was spending too much time at the lab and not enough at home with the kids. As Blum shows, Freudian and behavioral psychologists argued for decades that babies were drawn to their mothers only as a source of milk, motivated by the instinctual drive for sustenance, and that children could be harmed by too much affection. Monkey Wars fans who have been waiting for a follow-up will find this book irresistible. Born Harry Israel, Harlow changed his name because 1930s anti-Semitism
THIS IS THE TRUTH I was wondering what love was since I have never felt love in my life. This thought first came from a religious perspective which states that without love you have nothing. I don't think that I have any ability to love. I bonded with my father rather than my mother, but this was a very limited relationship because just as I had never seen an example of familial love, neither had my parents. I kept reaching out to my father but with no success.I have a good memory of my early childhood, and this boo. Facsinating exploration into the love instinct that makes us human Anonymous This is a phenomenal book about the necessity of love and exactly what that means scientifically. What is necessary from a mother and how should the child be pushed into the world with the mother's backing ? What are the biochemical effects and what other sources can bring back a poorly mothered child ? What relatives and friends and environment can make a difference ? Watching monkey families in tough circumstances can tell us what we need to know.Harry Harlow's real life is set against the primat. "Looking at love" according to Edith L. McLaurin. "Love At Goon Park" is a fascinating look at a man and his work. Deborah Blum provides the reader with an extensive and sobering background before exploring Harry Harlow's research. Did you know that as recently as the 1950s, psychologists were trying to convince parents that too much cuddling and "love" were bad for their children? Harlow, with his revolutionary experiments on baby monkeys, was bucking the conventional wisdom of his time. He was trying to say that mother's love mattered, that touc