Working with Sexuality: Bodies, Desires and Imagination

The Neurobiology of Falling in Love and Intimate Relationships

Janice Hiller explains the male and female hormonal reactions that take place during the life cycle of a relationship. She describes how the three evolutionary phenomena of lust, attraction and attachment (that are often in conflict) trigger neurobiological reactions that give rise to the human behavior that poets and agony aunts have been writing about since the beginning of time. She also briefly outlines how competing male and female arousal systems and reproductive priorities affect the couple’s sexual and relational behavior over the course of meeting, mating and sometimes, moving on.