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Author:Louann Brizendine Publisher:Broadway Studio:Broadway Manufacturer:Broadway Label:Broadway Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 304 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8
Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can?t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages.
Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women?s brain function.
In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior.
The result: women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.
So far too Good! November 27, 2008 The Female Brain This book definitely is not just a guide for women to understand themselves. As a male reader I have found it so useful in inderstanding not only why she (my wife) or they (the women we love/hate)act the way they do. Also I understand now why people say that "men are all the same" or "women are all the same". From the brain's structure perspective and it's interaction with hormones and other "stuff" we are all the same, men and women. This regarding only to that perspective and not the environmental, past experiences, education, social level, and that type of influences, which in fact could shape our personalities in such different ways.
I guess that now I vave a more accurate perspective that will help me a lot in raising my girls properly.
This book itself will not explain why everything is the way it is, since there are millions of other facts that will actually influence behaviour and reactions in diverse people and situations, but on the other hand it actually gives you many facts and references to people and studies that brings to the different "theories" and/or conclusions showed.
It is such a great book for both men and women that I recomend it to everyone.
For All Women November 23, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book helps to explain the emotional roller coaster that some girls and women find themselves on. Dr. Louann Brizendine describes the entire lifespan of the female brain with all of the up-to-date facts. (It helps to know why I'm feeling like I do.) This book was recommended to me by a male friend, I hope just as many men read this book as women.
Educational, though too much over-simplification November 1, 2008 Having spent many years studying human psychology in both an academic setting and practical, hands-on settings, I can say that there is some value in this book. That said, I think it makes vast conclusions that are not so useful. For example, no one could seriously argue that there are a few general differences between men and women in, for example, what they find attractive in the opposite sex. (That's why you don't see men wearing lipstick in order to draw in the ladies.) However, in some many areas she seems to have a very black and white point of view. Women are like this, while men are like that, individual variabilities be damned. In fact in the real world there is no reason why women can't be math or philisophical geniuses (and indeed many are). There's no reason why men can't be nuturing, and again many are. I recommend the works of Deborah Tannen as being better scholarship and research.
Should read this a long time ago October 17, 2008 Best book in a long time. I give it to everybody now and they love it and agree, "Why didn't somebody give this to me when I was 20?" Can't go wrong, great buy, great read.
Challenging the Standard Sociological Model October 12, 2008 I was trained as a sociologists to believe that gender differences were socially constructed. Turns out the science does not support this viewpoint....and gender is an important factor in our brains evolved. Would like to read about my brain...but being having two daughters and a lovely wife it is good to get some insight inside the heads of the folks I live with. Highly recommended.
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