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inside their minds

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An edition of Animal madness (2014)

Animal madness

inside their minds

First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
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Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How about heartbroken or homesick? Animal Madness takes these questions seriously, exploring the topic of mental health and recovery in the animal kingdom.

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English
Pages
379

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Animal madness: inside their minds
2015, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, Simon & Schuster
in English - First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
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Animal madness: how anxious dogs, compulsive parrots, and elephants in recovery help us understand ourselves
2014, Simon & Schuster
in English - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Table of Contents

The tail tip of the iceberg
Diagnosing the elephant
Family therapy
Proxies and mirrors
Animal pharm
If Juliet were a parrot
Epilogue: When the devil fish forgive.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-365) and index.

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New York
Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
591.5
Library of Congress
QL751 .B6834 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 379 pages
Number of pages
379

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL36631901M
Internet Archive
animalmadnessins0000brai
ISBN 10
1451627017
ISBN 13
9781451627015
OCLC/WorldCat
894746578

Work Description

"For the first time, a historian of science draws evidence from across the world to show how humans and other animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to their feelings and the ways in which they lose their minds. Charles Darwin developed his evolutionary theories by looking at physical differences in Galapagos finches and fancy pigeons. Alfred Russell Wallace investigated a range of creatures in the Malay Archipelago. Laurel Braitman got her lessons closer to home--by watching her dog. Oliver snapped at flies that only he could see, ate Ziploc bags, towels, and cartons of eggs. He suffered debilitating separation anxiety, was prone to aggression, and may even have attempted suicide. Her experience with Oliver forced Laurel to acknowledge a form of continuity between humans and other animals that, first as a biology major and later as a PhD student at MIT, she'd never been taught in school. Nonhuman animals can lose their minds. And when they do, it often looks a lot like human mental illness. Thankfully, all of us can heal. As Laurel spent three years traveling the world in search of emotionally disturbed animals and the people who care for them, she discovered numerous stories of recovery: parrots that learn how to stop plucking their feathers, dogs that cease licking their tails raw, polar bears that stop swimming in compulsive circles, and great apes that benefit from the help of human psychiatrists. How do these animals recover? The same way we do: with love, with medicine, and above all, with the knowledge that someone understands why we suffer and what can make us feel better. After all of the digging in the archives of museums and zoos, the years synthesizing scientific literature, and the hours observing dog parks, wildlife encounters, and amusement parks, Laurel found that understanding the emotional distress of animals can help us better understand ourselves"--

"For the first time, a historian of science draws evidence from across the world to show how humans and other animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to their feelings and the ways in which they lose their minds"--

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