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Lewis, Marc D.
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Substance abuse -- Etiology.
Compulsive behavior -- Etiology.
Addicts -- Psychology.
Emotions.
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Lewis, Marc D.
Substance abuse -- Etiology.
Compulsive behavior -- Etiology.
Addicts -- Psychology.
Emotions.
MARC Display
The
biology
of
desire
:
why
addiction
is not a
disease
/ Marc Lewis.
by
Lewis, Marc D.
Doubleday Canada, 2015.
Call #:
616.86 L675b
Subjects
Substance abuse -- Etiology.
Compulsive behavior -- Etiology.
Addicts -- Psychology.
Emotions.
ISBN:
9780385682282 (hc.)
038568228X (hc.)
Description:
238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Through the stories of five people who journeyed into and out of
addiction
, a neuroscientist explains
why
the "
disease
model" of
addiction
is wrong. 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 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 how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery, given the realities of brain plasticity. For anyone who has wrestled with
addiction
either personally or professionally. Marc Lewis (MemoirsofanAddictedBrain.com) is a neuroscientist now working at Radboud University in the Netherlands. He taught for more than twenty years at the University of Toronto"--Provided by publisher.
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