American mania: when more is not enough

American mania: when more is not enough

Author
Whybrow, Peter C
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Year
2006;2013
Page
338 s. ; 21 cm
ISBN
0393059944,9780393328493,039332849X,9780393348194,9780393059946
File Type
epub
File Size
558.0 KiB

A doctor's bold analysis of the cultural disease that afflicts us all. Despite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, depression, obesity, and time urgency are now grudgingly accepted as part of everyday existence―they signal the American Dream gone awry. Peter C. Whybrow, director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, grounds the extraordinary achievements and excessive consumption of the American nation in an understanding of the biology of the brain's reward system―offering for the first time a comprehensive and physical explanation for the addictive mania of consumerism. American Mania presents a clear and novel vantage point from which to understand the most pressing social issues of our time, while offering an informed approach to refocusing our pursuit of happiness.

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