Free Download The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJWN3679 | 2024 | 15 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 452 MB
Author: Elias Dakwar
Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
A profound, humane, and revolutionary new framework for understanding and addressing addiction. Addiction has been called a moral failing, a social problem, a spiritual crisis, a behavioral disorder, and a brain disease. It has also been called a class issue, a supply problem, a problem of learning, a memory disorder, and a result of trauma. And some propose that addiction is neither a disease nor a problem, but a transgressive expression of freedom, a maligned sub-culture, a therapeutic relationship. Even the term ‘addiction’ is open to question. There are few human phenomena so elusive and intractable; after decades of neuroscientific research, we aren’t much closer to understanding addiction, nor to addressing it effectively. This profusion of interpretations, meanings, and models reflects a hidden truth about addiction: that it is profusely generative of meaning itself. In this bold reimagining, pioneering psychiatrist Elias Dakwar examines addiction as a sustained creative act-and specifically as a process of personal world-building, complete with its own rituals, systems of value, modes of suffering, and sources of support.
