Clinical psychologists have been dealing with miserable
feelings since their discipline was established. In the last 30
years, neuroscientists have made major headway in the understanding
of the sources of anger, depression, and fear. Today, whole
industries profit from this knowledge—producing pills for every
sort of pathological mood disturbance. But until recently, few
neuroscientists focused on the subject of happiness. Now, in The
Science of Happiness, leading German science journalist Stefan
Klein ranges widely across the latest frontiers of neuroscience and
neuropsychology to explain how happiness is fostered in our brains
and what biological purpose it serves and, importantly, how we can
control our negative feelings and emotions. In addition, he
explains the neurophysiology of our passions the elementary rules
of which are hardwired into our brains, the power of
consciousness, and how we can use it. In a final section, Klein
explores the conditions required to foster the "pursuit of
happiness." A remarkable synthesis of a growing body of research
that has not heretofore been brought together in one accessible
book, The Science of Happiness will ultimately help each of us
understand our own quest for happiness—and our fostering of it, as
well.
關於作者：
Stefan Klein, PhD, was science editor of Der Spiegel, one of
Germany’s leading newsmagazines, from 1996–1999, and a staff writer
with Geo magazine from 1999–2000, and he has also written for all
of Germany’s leading newspapers and magazines. Now a freelance
writer in Berlin, he is considered one of the most influential
science writers in German-speaking Europe. In 1998 he won the Georg
von Holtzbrink Prize for Scientific Journalism. He is also the
author of The Diaries of the Creation. He lives in TK. Translator
Stephen Lehmann is the humanities librarian at the University of
Pennsylvania. He co-translated Nietzsche''s Human, All too Human and
is the co-author of Rudolf Serkin: A Life. He lives in Swarthmore,
PA.
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