The Heart of Addiction

by Dodes, Lance M., M.D.

• ISBN13: 9780060958039
• ISBN10: 0060958030
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-16
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

With compassion and deep understanding based on more than 25 years of clinical practice, Dr. Dodes provides readers with the keys to mastering their addiction by helping them uncover: why they feel the impulse, why they feel it when they do; and what they can do to address these emotional needs in another way.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Time for a Change	p. 1
The Man Who Had No Time	p. 10
A Good Woman	p. 26
The Secret General	p. 41
I Have to Do Something	p. 54
Hooked by the Mind: Physical and Psychological Addiction	p. 69
The Genetics of Alcoholism	p. 80
Myths of Addiction	p. 91
When Is Abuse Not Addiction?	p. 103
The Internet, Shopping, Exercise: How Can You Tell If It Is an Addiction?	p. 116
Efforts to Understand	p. 130
Puzzling Cases	p. 141
Teens	p. 153
Couples	p. 168
When Are Compulsions Addictions?	p. 181
The Victors and the Vanquished: Compulsive Gambling	p. 195
Sexual Addiction	p. 210
Treatment	p. 224
Notes	p. 243
Index	p. 249
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