3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American psychiatrist — Stanford Medical School — chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic — author of Dopamine Nation — who became one of the most prominent public voices on addiction and the opioid epidemic.
Anna Lembke's 2021 book — explaining addiction through the brain's dopamine balance mechanism and arguing that modern life's overabundance of pleasure-inducing stimuli has triggered a mass addiction epidemic — a clinical psychiatrist's account that became a popular bestseller.
Canadian Jungian analyst who wrote Alcoholism and Women — a Jungian analysis of alcoholism as a spiritual search gone wrong — contributing to the depth psychological understanding of addiction.