The Complete Player: A Neurological Description of the Love Game Between the Player and his Mark

by Samantha Abrams

Whether you are male or female, you’ll enjoy this technical but humorous take on how men & women process love, addiction and self-worth. Explore the science of heartbreak & emotional recovery. Laugh out loud and discover how love, sex and drugs affect your brain, your psychology and unravel why and how we end up in toxic relationships. "The Complete Player" covers the neurological scope of the unscrupulous game of hearts played between men and women worldwide. It is written to the person who has been hurt emotionally by a player; one who toys with another’s love emotion for sport and sexual gratification. There are a lot of books on the market about womanizers and the games they play. This one however, is different because its findings are purely based in brain science and it explains what happens on both sides of this most devastating relationship dynamic. This book provides an unbiased exploration into the neurological, biological and psychological implications of falling in love with Mr. Wrong. The human heart and brain are inseparable. No matter your romantic situation, it is important to understand the biological and neurological gradation of falling in and out of love, experiencing joy and heartbreak; drug and alcohol addiction and more importantly, recognizing how you value yourself. After all, "your brain is supreme and should be your most cossetted tool because when it breaks, so does the rest of you." Understand how a broken heart changes your brain and influences your mind, body and emotional well-being. It is smart, funny and well worth the read.

Kindle Edition

First published April 24, 2018

About the author

Samantha Abrams is an author, comedian, actor, pencil artist and small business owner. She lives in Los Angeles and began researching neuroscience for help mothering a child with Autism. She also studied psychology and behavioral genetics. With some help from Dr. Brian King, fellow comedian, a neuroscientist and author of the best selling book, "The Laughing Cure", Samantha penned "The Complete Player" which explains, through behavioral neuroscience, how and why we enter into toxic relationships. It also helps us understand how ending unhealthy love relationships affects our mind and body. Her book is funny, smart and with straight-forward language, she spells out the neurological and psychological differences between how men and women process love, sex, addiction & self-worth.

Reviews

[Marco · Rating 5 out of 5]

In "The Complete Player", Samantha Abrams takes an in-depth look at not only what we do in relationships but also why.

Let me tell you, Abrams knows what she's talking about. After a relationship went awry, she wanted to know exactly what made up this toxic relationship and how it worked. With in-depth psychology and biology research, she gets right to why some people are 'marks' for players.

Abrams keeps it real. She wants you to be careful and realize the best fulfilling relationship you can find should be with yourself first - everything else is just biology - so she is completely honest and up-front about a lot of things in her life and how they affected her. She's been through a lot and so it's good that she wrote a book about love and life that's so honest because I think it can help a lot of people.

There's a lot of technical research for those who are science-minded but it's also very approachable to read and there's a list of terms at the back of the book.

Intelligent, truthful, interesting work.

[Laura Hamlet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Real, raw, and hilarious at times. Love the narration and the honesty. Chapter 3 is my absolute favorite. It surveys the biology of the brain, illuminating the human nature of the player and his mark. The author’s insights here can be taken even further if desired. Readers can use this information to assess just about any discord in their relationships (or lack thereof.) Highly recommended for anyone who has a brain and likes to use it.