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The Captive Imagination : Addiction, Reality and our Search for Meaning

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The Captive Imagination : Addiction, Reality and our Search for MeaningIn rich and arresting prose, and with radical originality, Dakwar expands initial, pragmatic insights about addiction into a far reaching examination of authenticity, exploring how we define a happy life, a good life, a valid life.' Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon A deeply humane and revolutionary new framework for understanding and treating addictionWhat causes addiction, and how should we treat it? Today it is understood primarily as a

In rich and arresting prose, and with radical originality, Dakwar expands initial, pragmatic insights about addiction into a far-reaching examination of authenticity, exploring how we define a happy life, a good life, a valid life.' - Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon A deeply humane and revolutionary new framework for understanding and treating addictionWhat causes addiction, and how should we treat it? Today it is understood primarily as a brain disease, yet in this bold reimagining of addiction, pioneering psychiatrist Elias Dakwar argues that this is false. It fails to explain, among other things, why many people can enjoy drugs without developing a dependency on them. Despite decades of neuroscientific research, we aren't much closer to truly understanding the nature of addiction, nor to addressing it effectively. In The Captive Imagination, Dakwar argues that addiction is an existential challenge, requiring a more philosophical and multidisciplinary approach, as well as a lens through which we can better understand ourselves. Addiction stems from our desire for happiness: whether addicts or not, we all struggle against meaninglessness, and resort to false solutions to our despair. Dakwar also shows how our individual capacity for self-delusion relates to our collective self-inflicted crises, from environmental destruction to social injustice. Drawing on vivid stories of his own patients, path-breaking research, and decades of clinical experience, The Captive Imagination offers a novel framework for understanding and overcoming addiction, as well as human suffering more generally.

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Sonia Beaty
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Great resource!
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This dermatology resource is great. Created by some of the authors that wrote very good dermatology books. This deck is very colorful and has a lot of explanations. It shows different stages of the various skin conditions. It also gives detailed things to look for and treatment recommendations on the back of each card. Only negative is that the pages are a bit thin. Overall great resource!
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Robyn K
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I work in a minute clinic and derm is not my strong suit. This is a great reference with pictures to help when I'm a little unsure!
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Natalia Elejalde Sanchez
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Virginia
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This are exactly what you’d expect, except cheaper than those review courses trying to sell them to you. Great pictures- great info on the back of each card regarding pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment.
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Rose
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Incredible reference tool
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I love it & my preceptor thinks it’s amazing too! However, she did bring to my attention the poor representation of African Americans & how they’re under represented in derm as a whole !!! Maybe the updated versions will be more inclusive !!!!
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