Primal Love: Reclaiming Our Instincts for Lasting Passion

By Douglas M. Gillette

Book Overview

Using case studies and self-evaluation exercises, an exploration of our evolutionary inheritance shows how the patterns evolved in nature in the past make our love lives simultaneously wonderful and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312117760
• ISBN13: 9780312117764
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Wild Monkey Love

"Primal Love" is thoughtful and thought-provoking. It attempts to explain our gender-based differences through the sciences of evolutionary biology and primate behavior. You can learn alot form those crazy bonobos. While this book did not engender quite the "aha moment" that Harville Hendrix's work did, it did give me quite a few insights into my rather conflicting attitudes about money. I found it to be just a tad skewed toward the male perspective. It would be interesting to read something on the same material written by a woman. I would recommend this book to anyone wishing to gain more insight into gender-based behavior.

The forces that drive our human sexuality are basic

Primal Love provides readers a wonderfully informative profile of our human sexuality (as males and females) by focusing not on theory that is based upon psychological "mombo-jumbo" but on the bio-anthropological roots that drive our sexual: desires, behavior and social interaction. For those people trying to evaluate and determine the reasons for their social sexual behavior, this book will give you the "peace of mind" knowing that our (especially male) desires and behavior stem from evolution, and nature's pre-programmed model of perpetuating our genes as a species. Simply knowing the roots driving our human sexuality allows us to better understand and our sexual behavior.

Great Book

Explains the relationships between the sexes in the context of Evolutionary Psychology. I have recommended this book to several of my female friends who want to better understand why men are they way they are. This book provided me with some great insights and comfort at a time I was going through a painful breakup. Much more interesting, believable and useful than "Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus.