Human fascination with the face is not merely cultural or aesthetic, but a fundamental neurobiological condition that connects the brain, emotion, and human identity, argues Prof. Freitas-Magalhães, the world's leading expert for Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, by Elsevier, Oxford, in this pioneering and extraordinary book introducing the concept of Facephilia. In this work, the author demonstrates that the face constitutes the first and deepest territory of human recognition — a space where the brain becomes visible and where emotion emerges even before language. Integrating history, culture, and contemporary neuroscience, the book proposes Facephilia as the scientific designation for the universal human fascination with the face, a phenomenon grounded in neurobiological mechanisms while simultaneously shaped by affective and social experience. At the intersection of art, evolution, and science, Facephilia: From the Brain to the Emotion presents a new emotional grammar in which the face is no longer merely the expression of emotion but its fundamental matrix, revealing how humanity has always recognized itself through the face of the other.