Berit Brogaard is Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami. Her book Transient Truths was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. In her academic research she specializes in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the cognitive sciences.

• Preface Chapter 1: Letter from a Friend Chapter 2: The Chemistry of LoveYour Brain on Crack Beliefs and Brain Chemistry Taking the Drug Away Addicted to Grief Emotional Pain Stress, Pimples and Gray Hair Love and Hate Chapter 3: The Philosophy of Love Love as an Emotion Basic and Complex Emotions The James-Lange Theory The Conjunctive Theory of Emotions The Connection Problem The Problem of Emotional Responses to Fiction The Perceived-Response Theory Chapter 4: Irrational Love Does the Idea of Irrational Love Make Sense? You Call It Madness, I Call It Love Irrational Compassionate Love Love as a Moral Emotion Love as a History Love and Personal Identity Is Love Unconditional? Love and Personal Identity Love and Sex Chapter 5: Relationships and Insecure Attachment Avoidant Attachment Style Secure Versus Insecure Attachment Avoidant Attachment Anxious Attachment Childish Relationships Jealousy and Anxious Attachment Attachment and the Relationship Theory Can Attachment Styles Change? Familiar Love Attachment Love Can Animals Love? The Other Dimension of Sex Chapter 6: Our Unconscious Affections Opponents of Unconscious Affection Unconscious Affect Unconscious Love In Your Dreams Is Love a Disposition Chapter 7: He Is Just Not That into You(And Other In-Between Cases) Prototype Theory Non-Monogamous Love as In-Between Cases "Love" is a Gradable Verb He's Just Not That Into You Ambivalence Chapter 8: How To Fall Out of Love Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche Psychoanalysis and Talk Therapy Emotional Regulation and Avoidance Behavior The Repetition Technique Prolonged Exposure Therapy Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Deep Relaxation and Meditation Heartbreak and Placement Conditioning The Sinclair Method Out, Damned Spot: Using Soap to Wash Away Your Negative Feelings Emotional Regulation as a Route to Happiness The End: The Heart Wants What It Wants References

[C]ompared to other introductory books analysing love, this book is incredibly well balanced. [...] Firstly, the interdisciplinarity of bringing up the true nature of love from the perspectives of science, philosophy, and sociology. Brogaard does not just simply show us the research results of various different academic fields, but also turns those into stories, and constructs her own opinions based on them.