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Dopamine Nation PDF-“Brilliant…riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.” (Beth Macy, author of Dopesick
As heard on Fresh Air)
This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting….
The increased numbers, variety, and potency is staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption.
In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain…and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. In essence, Dopamine Nation shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.
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Dopamine Nation PDF is one of the best medical books for students and professionals on the subject of Psychology . It is a must download.
The Authors
ANNA LEMBKE is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.
In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain. Most important, she tells readers how to find the delicate balance between the two. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives.
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Listening Length 6 hours and 11 minutes Author Dr. Anna Lembke Narrator Dr. Anna Lembke Whispersync for Voice Ready Audible.com Release Date August 24, 2021 Publisher Penguin Audio Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Language English Identification Number B08LQZCGDJ - Book Name : Dopamine Nation PDF
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You’d never expect to read what you read in this book. Examples of “pain” (remember, loosely defined) that can offset real physical pain: taking ice water baths; worms exposed to temperatures they normally don’t live at; fruit flies spun in a centrifuge; being struck by lightning; intermittent fasting; and horrifyingly included with the above examples—Japanese people who lived outside the epicenter of the 1945 atomic attack; and so on. Supposedly these are examples of how use of “pain” can become pleasure (rather than use of medications, therapy—our existing modern medicine model of treatment).
Alcoholics Anonymous is thrown in at the end of the book out of the blue and also being “radically honest”. A section titled “Truthful Autobiographies Create Accountability” begs how this became a sub-topic in the book.
Some of what she says makes sense but has been said a gazillion times (eg: exercise and endorphins) but nowhere does she scientifically prove using “pain”to treat pain even using her loosely defined terminology nor does she adequately tie this concept into the dopamine nation and addiction or prove it.
The book ends with 10 lessons such as “Beware of becoming addicted to “pain.” And “Prosocial shame affirms that we belong to the human tribe.” That last page says it all.”
Based on the podcasts I’d heard, I was hoping for a more biohackerish book about navigating dopamine pathways– instead, it’s all pro-AA (odd for a book that cites so much other research doesn’t cite the attrocious statistics there- in fact, she says ‘that’s why it works so well!’), thick with anti-medication bias and leaves you with frightfully simplified takeaways that have been in play for nearly a century. Nothing new, modern, surprising or actionable here for me.
Additionally, this is a great example of why authors shouldn’t narrate their own audiobooks– you could tell there were days she just did not want to be there. And, doubly so, you should NOT narrate an ethnic accent unless you’re a trained voice actor. That whole recurring storyline became almost unlistenable.”
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