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Why Love Matters  Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a
Baby's Brain by Sue Gerhardt offers an eloquent overview of the
latest scientific research on attachment. Gerhardt, a British
psychotherapist and cofounder of the Oxford Parent Infant
Project, has accomplished the formidable task of linking the
concrete language of neurochemistry to the more abstract area of
attachment theory. In so doing, she has greatly clarified the
nature-nurture argument, while establishing the critical
importance of parental love for optimum brain development in
childhood and the subsequent capacity for love and trust in
adulthood. Why Love Matters is an essential new work in the
field of attachment.   "Most of the literature on depression is
confined to its symptoms. The focus is on the adult's brain
chemistry and the adult's cognitions, which are the target of
treatments. There is remarkably little recogniti