American Mania When More Is Not Enough

Name: American Mania When More Is Not Enough
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ISBN: 9780393328493

ISBN-10: 039332849X

ISBN-13: 9780393328493

Edition: 2006

Authors: Peter C. Whybrow

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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 existencethey 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 systemoffering for the first time a comprehensive and physical explanation for the addictive…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.82" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English