具體描述
This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting… The increased numbers, variety, and potency is staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption.
In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain…and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. In essence, Dopamine Nation shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.
用戶評價
##年度最佳。 在這個多巴胺橫流，廉價快樂泛濫，智能手機成為注射器的時代。我們終該改變點兒什麼。 I saw in their brokenness my own vulnerability and humanity. I was reassured that I was not alone in my doubts, fears, and weaknesses.
##比較基礎入門級彆
##A very well-written and well-structured introduction to pleasure, pain, their balance, and contemporary strategies. Concepts were redundant for me as a neuroscience student, but examples are helpful for illustrating how others, and by extension everyone including me, may fall into addiction – very sobering in that sense.
##跟researcher的科普比略arbitrary，pain to treat pain的論據（可能是我對中醫針灸的態度）跟前麵神經學的展開完全不能比。最齣彩的地方是觀點對人自我管理的啓發特彆棒，我第一次真正接受rehabilitation的tenable：強行短期剋製行為能打斷dopamine的峰值，再通過mindful訓練容忍彈性，無論是戒毒還是戒賭，都符閤行為科學跟神經科學的邏輯，因此addiction一定要尋求專業幫助，而非簡單的靠意誌力。要繼續培養散步、騎車、發呆看風景這些low dopamine的pleasure，科普三星，當self-help看五星。
##跟researcher的科普比略arbitrary，pain to treat pain的論據（可能是我對中醫針灸的態度）跟前麵神經學的展開完全不能比。最齣彩的地方是觀點對人自我管理的啓發特彆棒，我第一次真正接受rehabilitation的tenable：強行短期剋製行為能打斷dopamine的峰值，再通過mindful訓練容忍彈性，無論是戒毒還是戒賭，都符閤行為科學跟神經科學的邏輯，因此addiction一定要尋求專業幫助，而非簡單的靠意誌力。要繼續培養散步、騎車、發呆看風景這些low dopamine的pleasure，科普三星，當self-help看五星。
還蠻引人入勝的，pain &pleasure很有意思
##年度最佳。 在這個多巴胺橫流，廉價快樂泛濫，智能手機成為注射器的時代。我們終該改變點兒什麼。 I saw in their brokenness my own vulnerability and humanity. I was reassured that I was not alone in my doubts, fears, and weaknesses.
##感覺並不是很technical 例子太多和science關係不大 讀瞭3/4後棄
##作者對於大麻和psychedelic drugs隻呈現片麵的證據和陳述，甚至對抗抑鬱藥都有些偏見。此外，行文間透露瞭一股judgmental和privileged的氣息。書裏的有些知識點是還不錯，但我不喜歡這個作者。（沒準哪天就在學校裏遇見瞭...）