Capture : unraveling the mystery of mental suffering /
Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wished we did not? For decades, Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon...
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New York, NY :
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A HUMAN MYSTERY. The terrible master ; Capture ; The nature of mental distress ; The search for a common mechanism
- THE HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONTEXT OF CAPTURE. William James and attention ; Freud and drive ; The science underlying capture
- WHAT CAPTURES?. A continuum from the ordinary to mental illness ; Rejection ; A brutish father ; Drink ; Physical pain ; Childhood trauma ; Blind love ; Obscene fascination ; Gambling ; The body ; A work of art ; Death ; A threat ; Two addicts ; Control ; Sadness ; Grandeur ; Abandonment ; Going mad ; Accumulation of burdens ; A unified theory
- WHEN CAPTURE TURNS ON THE SELF. David Foster Wallace
- WHEN CAPTURE LEADS TO VIOLENCE. Striking out ; The assassination of Robert Kennedy ; The Columbine school shootings ; The murder of John Lennon ; The murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School ; A theory of human capital
- CAPTURE AND IDEOLOGY. The America I have seen ; The obligation of our time ; I'm going traveling ; @SlaveOfAllah
- CAPTURE AND SPIRITUALITY. Capture by the divine ; Paying attention ; Captured by a message ; The revelation of nature
- CAPTURE AND CHANGE. Martin Luther's "Anfechtungen" ; Meaningful association ; Moments of clarity ; A creative life ; Compelled to be different ; Being in the right place ; Distracting the black dog ; Belief ; "Good-bye to All That" ; Reconciliation and forgiveness ; A toolkit borrowed from Buddhism ; Is there freedom from capture? ; A modest form of autonomy.