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Scientification of Love (Hardcover)

by Michel Odent (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 130 pages
  • Publisher: Free Association Books (1 Nov 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1853434760
  • ISBN-13: 978-1853434761
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 193,358 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The author here argues that the study of love has overlooked its importance as a potential new strategy for human survival and that the domination of nature and other human groups is no longer appropriate.


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What the title of this book might have been.
The title of this book might have been: "How the capacity to love develops?" Such a simple yet vital question is paradoxically new. Today convincing answers emerge from a combination of data provided by multiple scientific perspectives: it appears that the capacity to love develops early in life and that the period surrounding birth is critical. I hope the "Scientification of Love" will give food for thought to those who visualize a birth as a short period of time during which a woman "delivers" a baby. For them birth just represents a small number of dangerous hours in a long life: the point is to survive without visible damages. I hope the data I have brought together will help in particular doctors who wonder why there are still women who want to go through the pain and stress of labour at a time when it is possible - thanks to epidurals and drips - to give birth and watch the TV at the same time. On the other hand the results of a new generation of research support the attitude of women who intuitively resist the temptation of planned epidural anesthesia and elective cesarean section. In the current scientific context it is urgent to reconsider seriously the way babies are born. The main obstacle is a widespread, deep rooted misunderstanting of birth physiology.

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5.0 out of 5 stars oxytocin writ large for more loving humans, 11 Mar 2000
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Under a deceptively simple and small format, this is perhaps the most sophisticated and far-ranging of all Michel Odent's books until now. It brings together Michel's clinical experience of uninterfered human birth with his more recent research on the links between 'primal' experiences -before birth, around birth and in the first year-, and well being later on in life, with thought-provoking insights in every single chapter. While some readers may already be aware of the importance of oxytocin, the 'hormone of love', and endorphins in all aspects of human sexuality including lactation, this book explores their role in a wider concept of love that encompasses maternal love as prototype of all love and mystical emotions in altered states of consciousness. A very wide range of evidence from the biological and other sciences as well as the humanities is brought together in a logical sequence of chapters followed by both a summary of each argument and a list of references.

The cross-section of scientific papers included is impressive and keeps the reader on track to catch a glimpse of the whole, the 'unbroken mirror' of human behaviour. From a review of studies of oxytocin receptors in and outside the brain to the relevance of the disputed 'aquatic ape theory' and the salience of comparable features in the births of Buddha and Jesus, there is a concordance which speicalist readers should remain open to. The argument is anything but a reductionist one; the more extensive our analysis of the molecular level - the 'scientification' of love, the greater our understanding of how malleable the hormonal balance of humans as social beings can be.

For a long time, Michel Odent has been interested in culture fron the perspective of birth and the handling of infants around the time of birth. One of the main hypotheses in this book -quite a large piece of the mirror- is that interference with the birth process can be linked historically with a long phase of human evolution in which aggressiveness was adaptive; yet 'homo ecologicus' has everything to gain from a full dose of love hormones at the start of life. As an anthropologist who has witnessed in her lifetime the undisturbed birthing of Amazonian forest people, then the havoc caused by enforced medicalisation and now the conscious but difficult revaluing of native ways, I endorse Michel's argument as the message it also is. His book is an optimist one. It resolutely relies on reason and knowledge to expose how the physiological reduction of neocortical control curing labour -only possible if mothers feel secure-, does not only facilitate the release and action of oxytocin during birth but also provides a starting point for harnessing the energies of love heralded by Teilhard de Chardin, in new cultural forms.

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