Title: A guide to emotions, rational thinking, and somatic markers
Product review: Damasio is most famously known for his 'somatic markers' hypothesis, which challenges Cartesian dualism and the separation between mind and body. This book gives a great guide to rational thinking and the effect of frontal lobe damage (think Phineas Gage), but its coverage of emotions and the psychoneurology of them is weak, at best. His somatic markers theory suggests that parts of the body elicit an emotional reaction which interfaces with the amygdala and limbic system, but provides very little real evidence. As such, it is often quoted as a brief footnote in introductory psychology texts, but very little more than that.
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