Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (August 2021)
The book «explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world».
> Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. ... She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations
> In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke ... 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
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I am curious about how and how much discipline overrides the practical need for this theoretical field.
