Unbroken Brain
Price
$13.33
Publisher
Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
Publication Date
Unabridged edition (September 20, 2016
ISBN-13
978-1531889777
Dimensions
6.5 x 0.63 x 5.5 inches
Weight
3.5 ounces
Description
New York Times Bestselling author MAIA SZALAVITZ is one of the premier American journalists covering addiction and drugs. She is co-author of Born for Love and The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog , both with Dr. Bruce D. Perry. Her book, Help at Any Cost is the first book-length exposé of the "tough love" business that dominates addiction treatment. She writes for TIME .com, the New York Times, New York Magazine, VICE, Scientific American, Elle, Psychology Today, and The Guardian among others.
Features & Highlights
- More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to or recovering from addiction, whether it's alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the Internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th-century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and equally outdated treatment.
- Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple "addictive personality",
- Unbroken Brain
- offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addiction is a learning disorder, and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention, and policy. Like autistic traits, addictive behaviors fall on a spectrum - and they can be a normal response to an extreme situation. By illustrating what addiction is and is not, the book illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture, and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery - and why there is no "addictive personality" or single treatment that works for all.
- Combining Maia Szalavitz's personal story with a distillation of more than 25 years of science and research,
- Unbroken Brain
- provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about addiction.
