Unlock the Power of the Mind-Body Connection: An Exploration of the Science Behind Emotional Well-Being

SD: It will give you a confidence in goodness of nature.

India on Feb 19, 2024

Andrea Fulton: I just started this book, but I already know how valuable the content will be.

United States on Oct 23, 2023

Mary Walshe: The author can really get the message across in plain everyday language - a wonderful book for any reader - I loved it ❤️

United Kingdom on Aug 21, 2023

Cynthiat: Uno de mis libros favoritos

Mexico on Sep 23, 2022

LV: Kudos to Candace Pert for making the story of her role in the evolution of neuroscience and mind body medicine such a great read! A must for anyone with an interest, however well cultivated.

Canada on Oct 22, 2021

Mércia Cunha: O livro é maravilhoso.

Brazil on Jun 14, 2019

Peter Fritz Walter: I came to know about Candace B. Pert through the mind-boggling film 'What the Bleep Do We Know!?' I found her presence markedly impressive and right away ordered her book. Molecules of Emotion is not only an extraordinary scientific study, but it also comes with much autobiographic content. Candace Pert has the courage to reveal many details from her life as a female scientist.

Since the 1970s, the late Candace Pert has persisted in her vision of finding molecular evidence for the functionality of our emotions, and our sexuality, and more generally for mindbody medicine, within the boundaries of modern science. The book, if all that additional information was taken out, would be a research paper, too thin to fill a book. And it would probably miss its goal entirely. It’s this holistic and empathic approach, and needless to add that it’s an artistic approach as well, that makes this book so unique. And it shows that this scientist is actually a great human. Actually Pert, together with the brilliant animations in the Bleep movie, made transparent how human sexuality works, and that it is not a mechanical abstract function, that it is not, an instinct or...

United States on May 30, 2014

Craig Lang: I just got done reading Molecules of Emotion and I loved it.
Several of the reviews on this page complained that it was more of a memoir than a text. And they are right, it is - but it is not something that merits complaint. Rather, i think Candace Pert does a wonderful job of showing her personal journey, and the path along the way.

i would have rated it with five stars, but unfortunately, the book has a lot of typos. i find it hard to believe that as classic a book as this one would have so many grammar and spelling mistakes. Nearly all of these would and should have been caught by a good editor. I found them rather distracting, making it somewhat harder to read. It was an unfortunate wart on the what would otherwise be a solid five star review.

For some books, that would have been it. The book would have going onto the shelf, mostly unread. However, this book was good enough that I was able to look beyond the editing mistakes. And in the couple of days it took me to read it cover to over, i was fascinated by the world Dr.Pert builds.

i love the picture she portrays of science - specifically the National Institutes of Health. It shows...

United States on Apr 25, 2013

dougkorthof: This engagingly written, non-technical book was lovingly produced by the eminent researcher Dr. Candace Pert, discoverer of the endorphin receptor, with the aim of explaining current research finding to an audience of scientists, the general public, those seeking answers for their illnesses, and those desiring to understand how the body works.

Feminists and "real" scientists will find Dr. Pert's analysis of the anti-woman bias in science, and how much things have changed, sickening yet heartening. Yes, Dr. Pert was jacked out of the Nobel prize, but fought back, unlike the female discoverer of the DNA helix, whose work was simply stolen and presented as that of the male honchos. Dr. Pert points out that this woman's later death by cancer may have been due to the ignominy of how she was treated by the "good ol' boys" club.

The mind-body distinction drawn by the great Rene DesCartes (1596-1650) has haunted Western philosophy, psychology, psychiatry and medical science. No, psychology does NOT end at the neck! Asian philosophy and medicine has long been bedeviled by the Western snobbishness about this distinction; long have Asians thinkers explained...

United States on Oct 11, 2011