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1250116449
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Picador
ISBN-10
1250116449
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9781250116444
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Book Title
Unbroken Brain : a Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Cognitive Science, Psychopathology / Compulsive Behavior, Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, Substance Abuse & Addictions / General, Psychopathology / Addiction
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Self-Help, Science, Psychology
Author
Maia Szalavitz
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Trade Paperback

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Reviews
"Maia Szalavitz is one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere. Everything she writes should be read carefully - I guarantee you''ll have a lot to think about, and you''ll know far more than at the start." -- Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream "Maia Szalavitz is one of our most incisive thinkers about neuroscience in general and addiction in particular and her writing is astonishingly clear and compelling. In the timely, important, and insightful Unbroken Brain, Szalavitz seamlessly interweaves her moving personal story with her investigation into what addiction is (and isn''t) and how we can most effectively prevent and treat it." --David Sheff, New York Times bestselling author of Clean and Beautiful Boy "Through the lens of her own gripping story of addiction - supported with empirical evidence - Szalavitz persuasively shows that addiction is a disorder of learning, not one characterized by progressive brain dysfunction."-- Carl Hart, Ph.D., author of the Pen/Faulkner award-winning High Price: A Neuroscientist''s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society "Of the countless writers out there who''s focus is addiction, no one can begin to touch the brilliance of Maia Szalavitz. She is by far my favorite addiction writer, perhaps one of my favorite writers ever. Her passion and exceptional writing talent combined with her exhaustive research, create a book that will inspire, educate, enrage, and entertain. I can only promise one thing: if you read this book, you will never be the same again." --Kristen Johnston, actress, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Guts , addiction advocate, founder of SLAM, NYC "As more professionals realize that addiction isn''t really a disease, our challenge is to determine exactly what it is. Szalavitz catalogs the latest scientific knowledge of the biological, environmental and social causes of addiction and explains precisely how they interact over development. The theory is articulate and tight, yet made accessible and compelling through the author''s harrowing autobiography. Unbroken Brain provides the most comprehensive and readable explanation of addiction I''ve yet to see." --Marc Lewis, author of The Biology of Desire "... a new way of looking at drug addiction that offers a fresh approach to managing it. [Salavitz] writes frankly about her background .... In a heartfelt manner, she exposes her own fears and pain ... A dense blending of self-exposure, surprising statistics, and solid science reporting that presents addiction as a misunderstood coping mechanism, a problem whose true nature is not yet recognized by policymakers or the public." --Kirkus Reviews "Szalavitz makes a novel and even beautiful proposal. Addiction, she hypothesizes, is a developmental disorder. Specifically, it is a learning disorder. . . .[Szalavitz] explores problems with the criminalization of drugs, the place of racism in our culture''s treatment of drugs and addiction, and she looks closely and illuminatingly at different treatment methods. There''s a lot of news you can use in this book if you or someone you love is an addict." -npr.org "Journalist Szalavitz offers a multifaceted, ground-up renovation of the concept of addiction--both its causes and its cures." -- PW "Anyone who has battled addiction or seen it harm a loved one will gain insights from "Unbroken Brain," and if it influences policymakers, too, everyone will benefit."- Associated Press " Ms. Szalavitz deftly threads her life story through the book to illustrate the dynamics that put people at risk of addiction." -- The Wall Street Journal, "Maia Szalavitz is one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere. Everything she writes should be read carefully - I guarantee you'll have a lot to think about, and you'll know far more than at the start." -- Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream "Maia Szalavitz is one of our most incisive thinkers about neuroscience in general and addiction in particular and her writing is astonishingly clear and compelling. In the timely, important, and insightful Unbroken Brain, Szalavitz seamlessly interweaves her moving personal story with her investigation into what addiction is (and isn't) and how we can most effectively prevent and treat it." --David Sheff, New York Times bestselling author of Clean and Beautiful Boy "Through the lens of her own gripping story of addiction - supported with empirical evidence - Szalavitz persuasively shows that addiction is a disorder of learning, not one characterized by progressive brain dysfunction."-- Carl Hart, Ph.D., author of the Pen/Faulkner award-winning High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society "Of the countless writers out there who's focus is addiction, no one can begin to touch the brilliance of Maia Szalavitz. She is by far my favorite addiction writer, perhaps one of my favorite writers ever. Her passion and exceptional writing talent combined with her exhaustive research, create a book that will inspire, educate, enrage, and entertain. I can only promise one thing: if you read this book, you will never be the same again." --Kristen Johnston, actress, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Guts , addiction advocate, founder of SLAM, NYC "As more professionals realize that addiction isn't really a disease, our challenge is to determine exactly what it is. Szalavitz catalogs the latest scientific knowledge of the biological, environmental and social causes of addiction and explains precisely how they interact over development. The theory is articulate and tight, yet made accessible and compelling through the author's harrowing autobiography. Unbroken Brain provides the most comprehensive and readable explanation of addiction I've yet to see." --Marc Lewis, author of The Biology of Desire "... a new way of looking at drug addiction that offers a fresh approach to managing it. [Salavitz] writes frankly about her background .... In a heartfelt manner, she exposes her own fears and pain ... A dense blending of self-exposure, surprising statistics, and solid science reporting that presents addiction as a misunderstood coping mechanism, a problem whose true nature is not yet recognized by policymakers or the public." --Kirkus Reviews "Szalavitz makes a novel and even beautiful proposal. Addiction, she hypothesizes, is a developmental disorder. Specifically, it is a learning disorder."-- NPR "Journalist Szalavitz offers a multifaceted, ground-up renovation of the concept of addiction--both its causes and its cures." -- PW "Anyone who has battled addiction or seen it harm a loved one will gain insights from "Unbroken Brain," and if it influences policymakers, too, everyone will benefit."- Associated Press " Ms. Szalavitz deftly threads her life story through the book to illustrate the dynamics that put people at risk of addiction." -- The Wall Street Journal, "Maia Szalavitz is one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere. Everything she writes should be read carefully - I guarantee you''ll have a lot to think about, and you''ll know far more than at the start." -- Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream "Maia Szalavitz is one of our most incisive thinkers about neuroscience in general and addiction in particular and her writing is astonishingly clear and compelling. In the timely, important, and insightful Unbroken Brain, Szalavitz seamlessly interweaves her moving personal story with her investigation into what addiction is (and isn''t) and how we can most effectively prevent and treat it." --David Sheff, New York Times bestselling author of Clean and Beautiful Boy "Through the lens of her own gripping story of addiction - supported with empirical evidence - Szalavitz persuasively shows that addiction is a disorder of learning, not one characterized by progressive brain dysfunction."-- Carl Hart, Ph.D., author of the Pen/Faulkner award-winning High Price: A Neuroscientist''s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society "Of the countless writers out there who''s focus is addiction, no one can begin to touch the brilliance of Maia Szalavitz. She is by far my favorite addiction writer, perhaps one of my favorite writers ever. Her passion and exceptional writing talent combined with her exhaustive research, create a book that will inspire, educate, enrage, and entertain. I can only promise one thing: if you read this book, you will never be the same again." --Kristen Johnston, actress, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Guts , addiction advocate, founder of SLAM, NYC "As more professionals realize that addiction isn''t really a disease, our challenge is to determine exactly what it is. Szalavitz catalogs the latest scientific knowledge of the biological, environmental and social causes of addiction and explains precisely how they interact over development. The theory is articulate and tight, yet made accessible and compelling through the author''s harrowing autobiography. Unbroken Brain provides the most comprehensive and readable explanation of addiction I''ve yet to see." --Marc Lewis, author of The Biology of Desire "... a new way of looking at drug addiction that offers a fresh approach to managing it. [Salavitz] writes frankly about her background .... In a heartfelt manner, she exposes her own fears and pain ... A dense blending of self-exposure, surprising statistics, and solid science reporting that presents addiction as a misunderstood coping mechanism, a problem whose true nature is not yet recognized by policymakers or the public." --Kirkus Reviews "Szalavitz makes a novel and even beautiful proposal. Addiction, she hypothesizes, is a developmental disorder. Specifically, it is a learning disorder. . . .[Szalavitz] explores problems with the criminalization of drugs, the place of racism in our culture''s treatment of drugs and addiction, and she looks closely and illuminatingly at different treatment methods. There''s a lot of news you can use in this book if you or someone you love is an addict." -npr.org "Journalist Szalavitz offers a multifaceted, ground-up renovation of the concept of addiction--both its causes and its cures." -- Publishers Weekly "Anyone who has battled addiction or seen it harm a loved one will gain insights from "Unbroken Brain," and if it influences policymakers, too, everyone will benefit."- Associated Press " Ms. Szalavitz deftly threads her life story through the book to illustrate the dynamics that put people at risk of addiction." -- The Wall Street Journal
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Table Of Content
CONTENTS Author's Note ix Introduction 1 1. Needle Point 9 2. A History of Addiction 20 3. The Nature of Addiction 32 4. Intense World 41 5. The Myth of the Addictive Personality 56 6. Labels 72 7. Hell Is Junior High School 84 8. Transitive Nightfall 94 9. On Dope and Dopamine 106 10. Set and Setting 121 11. Love and Addiction 138 12. Risky Business 155 13. Busted 167 14. The Problem with Bottom 174 15. Antisocial Behavior 191 16. The 12-Step Conundrum 207 17. Harm Reduction 224 18. The Kiwi Approach 243 19. Teaching Recovery 258 20. Neurodiversity and the Future of Addiction 272 Acknowledgments 287 Notes 289 Index 323
Synopsis
Heroin, prescription pain pills, sex, stimulants, gambling, the Internets sugar: We hear more about addictions to substances and activities than ever before. But despite all the hype, our understanding of addiction is trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas and in equally antiquated treatment. Challenging both the idea of addiction's "broken brain"' and the simple notion of an "addictive personality," Maia Szalavitz-one of the world's leading journalists and thinkers on addiction - offers a radical new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders. Unbroken Brain explains why addiction is so varied, why it can seem like more of a choice than an illness, why it typically strikes the young, and why a surprising number of people outgrow it without treatment. When addiction is seen as a learning disorder, the reasons for the failure of current treatments and policies also become clear, as do better ways to help. Szalavitz shows how timing, history, family, peers, culture, and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery - and why no one treatment fits all. Combining her own personal story of overcoming heroin and cocaine addiction with a distillation of more than twenty-five years of science and research, Unbroken Brain provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about addiction. Book jacket., A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be 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 in 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 addictions are learning disorders 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.
LC Classification Number
RC564.S975 2017

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