Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke is the Stanford Addiction Medicine medical director, program director for the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and leader of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic.

This is a book on pleasure. It's also about suffering. Most importantly, it's about how to strike a delicate balance between the two, and why finding that balance is more crucial than ever. We live in a period when there is unparalleled access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting... The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, giving digital dopamine 24 hours a day, seven days a week to a wired generation. As a result, we've all become prey to obsessive overconsumption.

Dr. Anna Lembke, a psychiatrist and author, discusses the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the obsessive pursuit of pleasure leads to pain...and what to do about it in Dopamine Nation. Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and togetherness entails keeping dopamine in check by condensing sophisticated neuroscience into simple metaphors. Her narrative is held together by the lived experiences of her patients. Their compelling stories of adversity and redemption give us all hope for better regulating our consumption and changing our lives. Dopamine Nation essentially demonstrates that the key to attaining balance is to combine the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery. The book is among the best books on biology.

Author: Dr. Anna Lembke

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indulgence/dp/152474672X/

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