Tiffany M Field PhD is director of the Touch Research Institutes at the University of Miami School of Medicine She is recipient of the American Psychological Association Distinguished Young Scientist Award and has had a Research Scientist Award from the NIH for her research career She is the author of Infancy The Amazing Infant Touch Advances in Touch Touch Therapy Massage Therapy Research and Complementary and Alternative Therapies the editor of a series of volumes on High Risk Infants and on Stress Coping and the author of over 450 journal papers In the book Heartbreak she has reviewed recent research including her own studies on the heartbreak phenomenon as well as the symptom of social emotional pain intrusive thoughts dreams and insomnia crying loneliness depression anxiety and anger and the various therapies for heartbreak as well as chapters on recovery forgiveness and finding love again The appendices to her book include several writing exercises for recovering and quotes from recommended books Her introduction reads as follows It s been 9 months since I was dumped and I am still wracked with and reeling from pain I tried psychotherapy I tried reading all the I was dumped Heartbreak and Love Addiction books I tried writing lost love poems I tried reading Nora Roberts and Danielle Steele novels and I tried seeing Sex and the City and He s Just Not That Into You type movies All of these must have helped a bit because I kept doing them almost obsessively and compulsively I also have been working out 3 hours a day which probably helps the most and I took a beachside holiday with my daughter which was real therapy But I am still plagued by intrusive thoughts every moment of the day every day of the week and by waking up many times in the night thinking this was just a nightmare and not for real and wandering around looking for him and having frequent unpredictable bouts of heartache and embarrassingly uncontrolla