The book by Orestis Giotakos The Emotional Brain highlights the "emotional" aspect of the human brain and emphasizes that it is only a part of its incredible dynamics and, consequently, the role it plays in the functioning of the organism and in human behavior.

In this book, the author provides an excellent overview of the key concerns surrounding emotion and its interaction with the so-called rational level, offering us the current views of international literature in a simple yet scientific language.

It is a wonderful example of scientific writing, fully updated and distinct in Greek literature, useful not only for psychologists and psychiatrists but also for anyone seeking scientific information about emotions and their significant role in our lives.

As the author himself points out, it is a narrative of the functioning of the brain from the perspective of emotions, and knowledge in the realm of emotions offers more possibilities in the magical world of therapies.

Contents

• Foreword by Ilias Kouvelas
• Foreword by Nikos Vaidakis
• Foreword by the author
• Introduction
• The Brain
• Emotions
• Biology of Emotions
• Representation of Information and Emotion
• The Representation of Self and Others
• Forms of Emotional Trauma
• The Biology of Emotional Trauma
• Pathology of Emotion
• Delusional Emotion and Psychosis
• Emotion and the Body
• Retrieval of Emotional Memory Material
• Functionality and Regulation of Emotion
• Therapeutic Regulation of Emotion
• Dilemmas and Expectations of Neuroscience