In the realm of hungry ghosts : close encounters with addiction
Record details
- ISBN: 9781583944202
- ISBN: 1583944206
- ISBN: 9781556438806
- ISBN: 155643880X
- ISBN: 9780307371737
- ISBN: 0307371735
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (471 pages) : illustrations - Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, ©2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Author's note -- Preface to the U.S. edition -- Foreword / by Peter Levine -- Hungry ghosts : the realm of addiction -- pt. I : Hellbound train -- The Only home he's ever had -- The Lethal hold of drugs -- The Keys of paradise : addiction as a flight from distress -- You wouldn't believe my life story -- Angela's grandfather -- Pregnancy journal -- Beethoven's birth room -- There's got to be some light -- pt. II : Physician, heal thyself -- Takes one to know one -- Twelve-step journal : April 5, 2006 -- pt. III : A Different state of the brain -- What is addiction? -- From Vietnam to "Rat Park" : do drugs cause addiction? -- A Different state of the brain -- Through a needle, a warm, soft hug -- Cocaine, dopamine, and candy bars : the incentive system in addiction -- Like a child not released -- pt. IV : How the addicted brain develops -- Their brains never had a chance -- Trauma, stress, and the biology of addiction -- It's not in the genes. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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