Explore how the body’s automatic systems shape who you are and how you behave.
This concise, theory-driven work argues that the autonomic apparatus is the core driver of emotions, thoughts, and personality, offering a dynamic view of how feelings influence everyday actions.
This book presents a clear framework for understanding how peripheral processes influence cognition and behavior. It blends physiology, psychology, and clinical insight to explain how automatic sensations become the forces behind mood, motivation, and character.
- Learn how autonomic feelings originate in the body and steer actions, even before conscious thought.
- See the links between postural control, kinesthetic awareness, and emotional experience.
- Discover how affective cravings can be neutralized and how this shaping of desire guides behavior.
- Read about the interaction of instincts, emotions, and the will in shaping personality and social conduct.
Ideal for readers of psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral science who want a physiology-grounded picture of why we act the way we do.