The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is not a Disease [Audiobook] download free by Marc Lewis
- Listen audiobook: The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is not a Disease
- Author: Marc Lewis
- Release date: 2015/2/8
- Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9781610394376
- Rating: 9.56 of 10
- Votes: 656
- Review by: Averie Ritter
- Review rating: 8.22 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/17
- Duration: 3H8M55S in 256 kbps (51.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-06
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4 (compression RAR, RPM, ZIP, LZ, RZ, XZ)
- Total pages original book: 256
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M22S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the 'disease model' of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery.The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease, based on evidence that brains change with drug use. But in The Biology of Desire , cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing.Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it's supposed to do-seek pleasure and relief-in a world that's not cooperating. Brains are designed to restructure themselves with normal learning and development, but this process is accelerated in addiction when highly attractive rewards are pursued repeatedly. Lewis shows why treatment based on the disease model so often fails, and how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery, given the realities of brain plasticity. Combining intimate human stories with clearly rendered scientific explanation, The Biology of Desire is enlightening and optimistic reading for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Coping With Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Abnormal Psychology, Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology, Psychology, Addiction & Therapy, Neurosciences
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 27.56 USD
- Dimensions: 161x236x27mm
- Weight: 476g
- Printed by: PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Published in: New York, United States
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