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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER

“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.

 

Table of Contents

 

Introduction: the Problem 1 (6)

PART I The Pursuit of Pleasure

 

Chapter One Our Masturbation Machines

7 (24)

Chapter Two Running from Pain

31 (16)

Chapter Three The Pleasure-Pain Balance

47 (24)

PART II Self-Binding

 

Chapter Four Dopamine Fasting

71 (18)

Chapter Five Space, Time, and Meaning

89 (30)

Chapter Six A Broken Balance?

119 (20)

PART III The Pursuit of Pain

 

Chapter Seven Pressing on the Pain Side

139 (32)

Chapter Eight Radical Honesty

171 (36)

Chapter Nine Prosocial Shame

207 (24)

Conclusion: Lessons of the Balance 231 (4)

Author's Note 235 (2)

Notes 237 (20)

Bibliography 257 (18)

Acknowledgments 275 (2)

Index 277