Download Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction AudioBook Free
More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to or recovering from addiction, be it alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the Internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our knowledge of addiction is stuck in unfounded 20th-century ideas, addiction as a criminal offense or as brain disease, and equally out-of-date treatment. Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the idea of a straightforward "addictive personality", Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addiction is a learning disorder, and shows how viewing the problem this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, avoidance, and policy. Like autistic qualities, addictive behaviors land on a variety - and they can be a normal reaction to an extreme situation. By illustrating what addiction is and it is not, the e book illustrates how timing, background, family, peers, culture, and chemicals get together to make both condition and recovery - and why there is no "addictive personality" or sole treatment that works for everyone. Combining Maia Szalavitz's personal story with a distillation of more than 25 years of science and research, Unbroken Brain offers a paradigm-shifting method of thinking about obsession.
