The Pleasure Addicts
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The Pleasure Addicts
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Author : Lawrence J. Hatterer
language : en
Publisher: A S Barnes & Company
Release Date : 1980
The Pleasure Addicts written by Lawrence J. Hatterer and has been published by A S Barnes & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Ability categories.
Beyond The Pleasure Dome
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Author : Sue Vice
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 1994
Beyond The Pleasure Dome written by Sue Vice and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume of essays addresses a fascinating topic in literary and cultural studies - the relation of literature and addiction. Thirty-one contributors, from Europe, Israel and North America, treat the nature of addiction and its connections with fictionalizing and writing. The excessive appetities inspected here range from alcohol, drugs and food to love, sex and gambling. The concept of addiction is also analysed from the perspectives of law, cinema, gender, medicine and religion. Among the authors whose life and works are discussed here include those whose addictions are legendary (Malcolm Lowry, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas De Quincey, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac) and those who may not immediately be recognized as addicts (Marguerite Duras, Oliver Goldsmith, James Joyce, William Golding, Steven Spielberg).
Addicted To Pleasure
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Author : Valentin Matcas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11-20
Addicted To Pleasure written by Valentin Matcas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-20 with categories.
What is pleasure? You certainly know what pleasure is, since pleasure means everything to everybody. You know what hormones and neurotransmitters induce pleasure, and you know how to get pleasure whenever you desire. Pleasure relates to drugs, social encounters, fulfillment and desire, and it relates to entertainment too. What we want throughout this book is to model pleasure and addictions entirely, in order to prepare you in case that you ever have difficulties with... pleasure. ...As suffering of lack of pleasure and happiness for example, or being addicted, or seeking to help others with their addiction, or seeking to learn more about yourself from your most important cognitive perspectives, or seeking ways to withdraw, etc. Pleasure, among all your feelings, along with your entire punishment-reward mechanism, does not only feel good, but it helps you understand yourself, your needs and reasoning, your behavior, and your entire meaning in the inner and outer world.Humans seek pleasure indeed, humans venerate pleasure, but are humans sentient by nature, the way Science depicts them? ...Because if humans are defined as feelers and if they are expected to behave as feelers in the world, then this is their meaning in the world, to feel everything, to feel good always, and to live life feeling the best, even addicted. ...Yet as you know, humans excel at reasoning among everything else, and not necessarily at feeling, which describes more the animal kingdom. Pleasure is very good and it is better than pain, yet it is a great difference between feeling and reasoning. Reasoning is more about coping and understanding life and the world, while feeling is more about celebrating life and the world. ...Yet even this statement is not entirely true, because feelings are not even abilities within your cognitive system, but feelings are only meant to signal needs, and to reward and punish you, depending on circumstances. ...While reasoning is your main cognitive ability, and should be treasured the most. ...And this makes a great difference, because if you happen to live your life valuing feelings including your good feelings more than your actual abilities including your cognitive abilities, then feelings and pleasure in special become your focus in life. ...And with the multitude of artificial sources of pleasure that Society can offer, it is only a matter of time before you too become addicted. ...And as we will see throughout the book, becoming addicted is not even an error of judgment that you make while trying to feel good in life as everyone else, but addiction is an integral part of the normal natural process of your cognitive system, and it is even used by your subconscious intelligence in various circumstances, in order to render you disposed only to specific highly important activities in life, and to neglect the rest, as it is the case with your need for reproduction, for example.Throughout this book, we study what causes addictions in the world, from all perspectives: cognitive, empiric, behavioral, social, scientific, and ideological. We also study each type of drug along with all addictive activities, in order to understand them and be able to find ways to withdraw and to avoid them in all circumstances. ...And since your life in this world along with your entire behavior have higher meanings, we are going to integrate drugs, pleasure, and addictions within the human behavior, and also within the human higher meanings in the world. This book is not only about drugs and addictions, but this book helps you understand your mind, needs, feelings, intelligence, society, behavior, development, rewards, punishments, health, stress, and relaxation, all leading to a better understanding of who you are, how you reason, how you feel, and how you interconnect with those around throughout life.
Dopamine Nation
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Author : Dr. Anna Lembke
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-08-24
Dopamine Nation written by Dr. Anna Lembke and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-24 with Psychology categories.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, as heard on Fresh Air This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting . . . The increased numbers, variety, and potency is staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain . . . and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. In essence, Dopamine Nation shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.
The Compass Of Pleasure
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Author : David J. Linden
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2011-04-14
The Compass Of Pleasure written by David J. Linden and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-14 with Science categories.
A leading brain scientist's look at the neurobiology of pleasure-and how pleasures can become addictions. Whether eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex, or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. In The Compass of Pleasure Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level: in our brain. As he did in his award-winning book, The Accidental Mind, Linden combines cutting-edge science with entertaining anecdotes to illuminate the source of the behaviors that can lead us to ecstasy but that can easily become compulsive. Why are drugs like nicotine and heroin addictive while LSD is not? Why has the search for safe appetite suppressants been such a disappointment? The Compass of Pleasure concludes with a provocative consideration of pleasure in the future, when it may be possible to activate our pleasure circuits at will and in entirely novel patterns.
Pleasure Unwoven
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Author : Kevin T. McCauley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-06-13
Pleasure Unwoven written by Kevin T. McCauley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-13 with categories.
The companion study guide to the award winning DVD "Pleasure Unwoven".
Dealing With Pleasure Addictions
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Author : Robert Villegas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-20
Dealing With Pleasure Addictions written by Robert Villegas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-20 with categories.
Addiction is only possible to a person who is in denial of his own problems and who needs an "excuse" for escaping from his anxiety. It is a self-deception that exacerbates an individual's problems by offering short-term pleasure as a solution for long-term anxiety. Yet, without self-deception, addiction would not be possible. You can go through scientific study after scientific study and none of them deal with the fact that any consumption item or activity that produces pleasure (but not nourishment) requires an excuse (or an argument) for its intake. In truth, most people eat way too much. They stuff their bodies with calories, carbohydrates, sugars, drugs and other food elements, to such an extent that they overload the bodily organs that process food. Many eat for the sake of stimulating their taste buds. Some of them do not know the damage they are doing to their bodies, while others do it to escape life, using mass consumption as a way of avoiding it.
The Pleasure Seekers
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Author : Joel Fort
language : en
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company
Release Date : 1969
The Pleasure Seekers written by Joel Fort and has been published by Bobbs-Merrill Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Psychology categories.
Summary The Compass Of Pleasure How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods Orgasm Exercise Marijuana Generosity Vodka Learning And Gambling Feel So Good By David J Linden
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Author : Shortcut Edition
language : en
Publisher: Shortcut Edition
Release Date : 2021-06-01
Summary The Compass Of Pleasure How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods Orgasm Exercise Marijuana Generosity Vodka Learning And Gambling Feel So Good By David J Linden written by Shortcut Edition and has been published by Shortcut Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Business & Economics categories.
* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary, you will discover the different types of addictions and how the quest for pleasure can make us sink into addiction. You will also discover that : everything happens first in our brain; addictions can be hereditary; the best will in the world is not enough to get out of an addiction; sports can be addictive; our ideas are as addictive as any drug. Are we all addicted to activities that give us strong emotions? Whether it's gambling, shopping, food or sex, the person responsible for this addiction has a name: the FMT, or pleasure bundle of our brain. David J. Linden, professor of neuroscience and author of "All Addicts!", explains in his book how it is possible to go from pleasure to addiction. *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!
The Subject Of Addiction
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Author : Rik Loose
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-06-27
The Subject Of Addiction written by Rik Loose and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-27 with Psychology categories.
Drugs and drug use are an integral part of human culture. Yet we know hardly anything about drugs, at least not the kind of knowledge that would help us to understand how drugs affect people and how people beome addicted to drugs. This is most surprising in the light of the vast amount of knowledge accumulated in the sciences. Psychoanalysis might not be an obvious choice for the treatment of addiction. Nevertheless, it is in an excellent position to make a contribution to a problem that has so far defied much of our understanding. By inviting people to speak about themselves, psychoanalysis has established a unique way of collecting clinical material, a material that surely must be immediately relevant coming as it does from the horse's mouth. With addiction on the increase, this fact alone justifies the necessity for a different approach.Providing a theoretical foundation for the argument that psychoanalysis should be seriously considered, and where possible incorporated into the treament of addicts, this thoughtful and innovative book can serve as an orientation in the ongoing front-line battle with addicts and addiction.