Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs - Rilegato

Masson, J. Moussaieff

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ISBN 10: 0609600575 ISBN 13: 9780609600573

Casa editrice: Crown Pub, 1997

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The author of When Elephants Weep journeys inside the world of dogs to reveal the remarkable depth of canine emotional complexity, explaining how dogs' sense of smell shapes their perception of reality and the expression of such emotions as gratitude, loneliness, and love. 150,000 first printing. Tour.

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Jeffrey Masson has a Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University and graduated from the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute.  He was briefly projects director at the Sigmund Freud Archives; the documents he found there on Freud's approach to child abuse created a major controversy in psychoanalysis.  He has written more than a dozen books, including most recently the national bestseller When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (with Susan McCarthy).  He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, child, two cats, and three dogs.

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ve an intense love for their dogs: thirty-five percent of American households owned a dog in 1994, representing a dog population of more than 52 million. "It hardly seems worth asking the question of why we love them," writes noted psychoanalyst Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. "We love dogs because they love us, unconditionally. No matter how we treat them, what we do to them, how little attention we pay to them, they are eager to please us, eager to be with us." In Dogs Never Lie About Love, the New York Times best-selling author of When Elephants Weep shifts his attention from the jungle to the living room to explore the exotic and unchartered territory of dog emotion.

Why do dogs bark?
Why don't cats and dogs "fight like cats and dogs"?
Do some dogs commit suicide from despair?

Drawing from scientific studies, legends and literature, and from the stories of dog tra

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Crown Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0609600575
• ISBN 13: 9780609600573
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 274
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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