Dopamine nation finding balance in the age of indulgence
"Resettling Your Brain in the Age of Cheap Pleasures"--
| Main Author: | Lembke, Anna, 1967- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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[New York, New York] :
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The problem
- The pursuit of pleasure. Our masturbation machines ; Running from pain ; The pleasure-pain balance
- Self-binding. Dopamine fasting ; Science, time, and meaning ; A broken balance?
- The pursuit of pain. Pressing on the pain side ; Radical honesty ; Prosocial shame
- Conclusion: Lessons of the balance.