Read an Extract from The Biology of Desire, an Account of Addiction and How we can Overcome it

Read an Extract from The Biology of Desire, an Account of Addiction and How we can Overcome it

13th July 2016 Dr Marc Lewis is a neuroscientist and professor of developmental psychology, now teaching at Radboud University in the Netherlands after more than twenty years on faculty at the University of Toronto. He has authored or co-authored more than fifty journal articles in neuroscience and developmental psychology. Presently, he speaks and blogs on topics in addiction science, and his critically acclaimed book, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: a neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs, is the first to blend memoir and science in addiction studies.  In his latest book, The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that the branding by the psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world of addiction as a brain disease, has become an…


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