The Urge

Author : Carl Erik Fisher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780735237018

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An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction—a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives—by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat it. With uncommon empathy and erudition, Carl Erik Fisher draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery as he traces the history of a phenomenon that, centuries on, we hardly appear closer to understanding—let alone addressing effectively. As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Fisher was soon face-to-face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of the condition that had plagued his family for generations, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that the current quagmire is only the latest iteration of a centuries-old story: humans have struggled to define, treat, and control addictive behavior for most of recorded history, including well before the advent of modern science and medicine. A rich, sweeping history that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and sociology, The Urge illuminates the extent to which the story of addiction has persistently reflected broader questions of what it means to be human and care for one another. Fisher introduces us to the people who have endeavored to address this complex condition through the ages: physicians and politicians, activists and artists, researchers and writers, and of course the legions of people who have struggled with their own addictions. He also examines the treatments and strategies that have produced hope and relief for many people with addiction, himself included. Only by reckoning with our history of addiction, he argues—our successes and our failures—can we light the way forward for those whose lives remain threatened by its hold. The Urge is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinician’s urgent call for a more expansive, nuanced, and compassionate view of one of society’s most intractable challenges.

Author : Carl Erik Fisher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780525561453

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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Boston Globe An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction—a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives—by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself “Carl Erik Fisher’s The Urge is the best-written and most incisive book I’ve read on the history of addiction. In the midst of an overdose crisis that grows worse by the hour and has vexed America for centuries, Fisher has given us the best prescription of all: understanding. He seamlessly blends a gripping historical narrative with memoir that doesn’t self-aggrandize; the result is a full-throated argument against blaming people with substance use disorder. The Urge is a propulsive tour de force that is as healing as it is enjoyable to read.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat it. With uncommon empathy and erudition, Carl Erik Fisher draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery as he traces the history of a phenomenon that, centuries on, we hardly appear closer to understanding—let alone addressing effectively. As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Fisher was soon face-to-face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of the condition that had plagued his family for generations, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that the current quagmire is only the latest iteration of a centuries-old story: humans have struggled to define, treat, and control addictive behavior for most of recorded history, including well before the advent of modern science and medicine. A rich, sweeping account that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and public policy, The Urge illuminates the extent to which the story of addiction has persistently reflected broader questions of what it means to be human and care for one another. Fisher introduces us to the people who have endeavored to address this complex condition through the ages: physicians and politicians, activists and artists, researchers and writers, and of course the legions of people who have struggled with their own addictions. He also examines the treatments and strategies that have produced hope and relief for many people with addiction, himself included. Only by reckoning with our history of addiction, he argues—our successes and our failures—can we light the way forward for those whose lives remain threatened by its hold. The Urge is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinician’s urgent call for a more expansive, nuanced, and compassionate view of one of society’s most intractable challenges.

Author : Carl Erik Fisher
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922586216

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An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction — a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives — by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself. Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, intense controversy still rages over the fundamental nature of addiction and the best way to treat it. With uncommon empathy and erudition, Carl Erik Fisher draws on his own experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery as he traces the history of a phenomenon that, centuries on, we hardly appear closer to understanding — let alone addressing effectively. As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Fisher was soon face-to-face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of the condition that had plagued his family for generations, he turned to the history of addiction, learning that the current quagmire is only the latest iteration of a centuries-old story: humans have struggled to define, treat, and control addictive behaviour for most of recorded history, including well before the advent of modern science and medicine. A rich, sweeping history that probes not only medicine and science but also literature, religion, philosophy, and sociology, The Urge illuminates the extent to which the story of addiction has persistently reflected broader questions of what it means to be human and care for one another. Fisher introduces us to the people who have endeavoured to address this complex condition through the ages: physicians and politicians, activists and artists, researchers and writers, and of course the legions of people who have struggled with their own addictions. He also examines the treatments and strategies that have produced hope and relief for many people with addiction, himself included. Only by reckoning with our history of addiction, he argues — our successes and our failures — can we light the way forward for those whose lives remain threatened by its hold. The Urge is at once an eye-opening history of ideas, a riveting personal story of addiction and recovery, and a clinician's urgent call for a more expansive, nuanced, and compassionate view of one of society's most intractable challenges.

Author : Caleb Ansley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781477112670

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Fighting the Urge by Caleb Ansley Pdf

Taint and Alana are in love. But this is no normal love, no, Taint suffers from Depression. Alana deals with Bulimia. They do everything they can to help each other, meeting others on the way; a strange boy called Garth with an unhealthy obsession with fire and the very source of all three of their problems: Two Men.

Author : Peter Knoester
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781525538506

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The Urge Within Me by Peter Knoester Pdf

My book consists of some analyses of my own person and the way i see the world through my experiences in every day life.Having been raised in a religious environment has also given me an outlook on life and it's pitfalls as well as the good things that came out of it. Religion is the staple of most societies and each has a way oi life to it and a promise for a heaven or a place that will give peace and an absence of any evil. Where freedom reigns and happiness is around us like a coat. Whether there are many ways to get there I can not say but I am sure that most people think that their way is the one and only way. I will in no way dispute these facts because sitting in judgment over others is like walking in quicksand and in the end the results may still be the same

Author : Laura Byrne Paquet
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550225839

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The Urge to Splurge by Laura Byrne Paquet Pdf

Tracing the cultural evolution of shopping from outdoor bazaars to suburban malls, this brazen look at the history and psychology of one of humankind's oldest pursuits considers the variety of reasons (and excuses) that drive the impulse to buy. An opulent collection of shopping places are described, including ancient markets, covered arcades of 18th-century France, gallerias of 19th-century Italy, and megamalls of 1950s America. Examples from literature and other sources explore the historically conflicted attitudes about shopping, it seems that fashionistas have always fought over the trendiest hemlines and hats. The development of buying options is detailed, from mail order catalogs and Internet stores to retail districts and massive supermarkets.

Author : Robert Joseph Kerner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520350304

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The Urge to the Sea by Robert Joseph Kerner Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1942.

Author : Mary Welsh
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781632875259

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Binge Eating: Learning to Control the Urge by Mary Welsh Pdf

"Binge Eating: Learning to Control the Urge" is a book that helps readers to fully understand how the disorder can affect an individual. A lot of people still think that a person who binge eats is simply indulging in a bad habit or is being greedy. The book however, refutes that claim and explains what binge eating really is. It outlines what binge eating is and then moves into the symptoms and signs that come with this particular eating disorder. It then goes on to outline the various treatments that can be used to help persons deal with this disorder. This is great book to start with when one wants to learn about binge eating disorder.

Author : Stephanie D. Preston
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231555524

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The Altruistic Urge by Stephanie D. Preston Pdf

Ordinary people can perform acts of astonishing selflessness, sometimes even putting their lives on the line. A pregnant woman saw a dorsal fin and blood in the water—and dove right in to pull her wounded husband to safety. Remarkably, some even leap into action to save complete strangers: one New York man jumped onto the subway tracks to rescue a boy who had fallen into the path of an oncoming train. Such behavior is not uniquely human. Researchers have found that mother rodents are highly motivated to bring newborn pups—not just their own—back to safety. What do these stories have in common, and what do they reveal about the instinct to protect others? In The Altruistic Urge, Stephanie D. Preston explores how and why we developed a surprisingly powerful drive to help the vulnerable. She argues that the neural and psychological mechanisms that evolved to safeguard offspring also motivate people to save strangers in need of immediate aid. Eye-catching dramatic rescues bear a striking similarity to how other mammals retrieve their young and help explain more mundane forms of support like donating money. Merging extensive interdisciplinary research that spans psychology, neuroscience, neurobiology, and evolutionary biology, Preston develops a groundbreaking model of altruistic responses. Her theory accounts for extraordinary feats of bravery, all-too-common apathy, and everything in between—and it can also be deployed to craft more effective appeals to assist those in need.

Author : C. L. Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1732672008

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The Urge by C. L. Gibson Pdf

Revenge is made and justice is delivered. Take a trip through the minds of the killers, the victims, and the pedophiles. All those twisted from childhood will twist together in the end.

Author : Jonathan C. Calvert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 0761863931

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The Urge to Know by Jonathan C. Calvert Pdf

"It was love at first sight when Jonathan Calvert saw the Matterhorn in 1953 ... Over the next fifty years, Calvert climbed, hiked, trekked, sailed, kayaked, and dog sledded in wild places across the globe ... This book is a record of his adventures, told through memoir, journals, and photographs"--Jacket flap.

Author : Elizabeth A. Williams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226693187

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Appetite and Its Discontents by Elizabeth A. Williams Pdf

Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its Discontents, Elizabeth A. Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through the lens of science and medicine to show us how appetite—once a matter of personal inclination—became an object of science. Williams charts the history of inquiry into appetite between 1750 and 1950, as scientific and medical concepts of appetite shifted alongside developments in physiology, natural history, psychology, and ethology. She shows how, in the eighteenth century, trust in appetite was undermined when researchers who investigated ingestion and digestion began claiming that science alone could say which ways of eating were healthy and which were not. She goes on to trace nineteenth- and twentieth-century conflicts over the nature of appetite between mechanists and vitalists, experimentalists and bedside physicians, and localists and holists, illuminating struggles that have never been resolved. By exploring the core disciplines in investigations in appetite and eating, Williams reframes the way we think about food, nutrition, and the nature of health itself..

Author : Eugene Demery
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1420822780

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The Undermining Urge by Eugene Demery Pdf

A story of a woman living within the twentieth century bent on having a life of use to herself and others. The changes from the Great Depression to the affluence after wars and police actions transform her work place. Part of her life is her work a day world as a young aspiring clerk with ambition. The complications of her personal life drive her up the company's ladder. All the temptations and frustrations of being a working women play a part to the end. The store she works for until retirement and all the local color are a part of the City of Seattle's history as a growing metropolis. Whether it be people in an area or the area containing those lives, they are bound together.

Author : Peter L. Giovacchini
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039049965

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The Urge to Die by Peter L. Giovacchini Pdf

Author : Bill Friskics-Warren
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0826419216

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I'll Take You There by Bill Friskics-Warren Pdf

The urge to connect with that which transcends our experience, be it a higher power, another person or some artistic ideal or aspect of nature, is one of the things that makes us human. People view the object of this quest, as well as what it means to achieve it, differently. Yet regardless of how it is understood, the urge to participate in or belong to something greater and more lasting than ourselves—a feeling born of an awareness of our mortality—is what defines us as spiritual beings. Though often dismissed as ephemeral or, worse, demonic, popular music has given voice to this quest for transcendence since its beginnings. Pop singers are rarely as outwardly spiritual as, say, their gospel counterparts; they're forever pointing beyond themselves, though, be it to some better future, some higher ideal, or to some vision of deliverance. Fontella Bass's "Rescue Me," the Four Tops's "Reach Out (I'll Be There)," Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross," Afrika Bambaataa's "Looking for the Perfect Beat," and U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" are but a handful of popular recordings from the past few decades that express a longing for something more. What, other than transcendence, is Jimi Hendrix talking about in "Purple Haze" when he shouts, "'scuse me, while I kiss the sky"? Or Van Morrison, in "Caravan," when he implores us to crank our radios and sail away with him into the mystic? Heard in the right light, secular and even carnal records have the power to speak to transcendental concerns, galvanizing their historical and cultural moments. Regardless of their spiritual leanings, all of the subjects discussed in this book (including Public Enemy, Madonna, Sleater-Kinney, Tricky, Johnny Cash, Nine Inch Nails, Moby, Marvin Gaye, Eminem, Polly Harvey, Bruce Springsteen and Sly & the Family Stone) make music that expresses a basic striving for transcendence. Artists' stories and personalities inform these discussions, but only in as much as they illuminate the struggles and concerns that run through their music. I'll Take You There is a beautifully written, wide-ranging and illuminating examination of some of the most potent popular music ever recorded.