Seasons of desire

Desire and Desire Regulation

A good deal of people’s waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire. There is no question that desires are often benign, functional, and evolutionary adaptive for the individual. However, there are cases where desire stands in conflict with important (selfregulatory) goals or (moral) values. Prime examples include the exsmoker who, upon seeing other peopl...

The Seasons of Life

Desire, Reward, Feeling: Commentary on Three Faces of Desire

The three faces of desire are, in a nutshell, that desires are motivating, that satisfying desires is usually pleasurable, and that desires determine what will count as rewards and punishments. Schroeder's view of how these knit together goes like this. Pleasure and displeasure are a result of desires so cannot be what desire consists in. We can desire without being motivated and vice-versa; th...

Circuits of sexual desire in hypoactive sexual desire disorder.

What Is HSDD? For both patients and health care providers, HSDD probably should mean “Having the Sexual Dysfunction Discussion” to diagnose and treat distressful conditions,1 but it really stands for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. The DSM-IV defines it as the persistent or recurring deficiency (or absence) of sexual fantasies or thoughts or desire for sexual activity associated with persona...

Jurassic seasons

Stable isotope compositions of a late Jurassic ammonite shell: a record of seasonal surface water temperatures in the southern hemisphere? C. Lécuyer and H. Bucher Laboratory “Paléoenvironnements & Paléobiosphère”, UMR CNRS 5125 , Bâtiment “Geode”, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I et Institut Universitaire de France, 27–43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, France Paläontologisc...