
The Healing Power of Connection
At one level we have always understood that there is a close link between physical and social pain. We talk about having hurt feelings and broken hearts, and many of us will have experienced physical pain when learning of the loss of somebody dear to us. Recent research has demonstrated that this link is even stronger than we might have imagined, and that many of the neural pathways that are involved in physical pain are also involved in social pain. These links have been r