Kelley Library

Heartbreak, a personal and scientific journey, Florence Williams

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-296)

contains biographical information

no index present

non fiction

Heartbreak

bibliography

Florence Williams

a personal and scientific journey

"Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ways to mend her own. When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that she'll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to the frontiers of the science of "social pain" to learn why heartbreak hurts so much and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong. Searching for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, Williams tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, undergoes electrical shocks in a laboratory while looking at pictures of her ex, and ventures to the wilderness in search of awe as an antidote to loneliness. For readers of Wild and Lab Girl, Heartbreak is a remarkable merging of science and self-discovery that will change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love."--, Provided by publisher

Introduction -- SHATTER -- Bridge to nowhere -- The heart -- Kindu kush -- A costly life event -- OG sin -- ALONE -- All pain is one malady: rejection -- Heartbreak hotel: grief -- Welcome to the eremocene: attachment -- Your cells are listening : The body doesn't lie -- Shaggy birds -- The wizards of lonesome -- AWE -- Truth serum, part one -- High island: warmth -- Excuse my piloerection: the science of awe -- Split mountain -- Confluence -- The happiness that matters: social well-being -- Truth serum, part two -- The divorce drug -- Open sesame -- Man in the kastle: opioids, love, and the science of recovery -- The future of heartbreak -- The personality of the body -- A boat of lettuce