Psychologists know best, of course, and in the 1950s they warned
parents about the dangers of too much love. Besides, what was "love"
anyway? Just a convenient name for children seeking food and adults
seeking sex. It took an outsider scientist to challenge it. When Harry
Harlow began his experiments on mother love he was more than just an
outside the mainstream, though. He was a deeply unhappy man who knew
in his gut the truth about what love -- and its absence -- meant, and
set about to prove it. His experiments and results shocked the world,
and Wire Mothers & Inanimate Arms will shock you as well.