Addictions

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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Limits

From: On Opium

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The author describes her writing life in relation to the chronic pain and stiffness of her disease and how, no longer depressed, she has stretched her own limits with opiods, and asks if she can … 23 $2.30 Add
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Chapter 3

Withdrawal

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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Beginning the Alcohol segment in the throes of withdrawal, Wood takes readers through his transition to heavy drinking and the health issues he’s been encountering. He describes his … 20 $2.00 Add
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Making the Choice to Take Therapy Outside

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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Inclement weather such as high winds and rainstorms can also provide avenues for experiences of self-care, thriving outdoors, and, metaphorically, in dealing with life challenges and formidable forces. ; ; 22 $2.20 Add
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The Pull

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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The process of the medium, of i-tech itself, is what is attractive; it draws us in. And this draw, or pull effect, is what has the potential to alter behavior. For example, the central concept in … 9 $0.90 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Vertigo

From: On Opium

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Through the metaphor and the physical condition of vertigo, the author describes a benign temporary condition of incapacitiating vertigo, an artist’s residency in Venice, and the experience … 13 $1.30 Add
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Chapter 4

Playing the Tape Out

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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After losing his wallet during a trip, Wood almost falls back into the alcohol spiral. "A test of resolve." However, following an endoscopy, Wood learns he can add stomach ulcers to a … 13 $1.30 Add
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Nature-based Play, Regulation, and Healthy Neurophysiology

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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This chapter provides a basic understanding of the mammalian nervous system and how consideration for different neural states (in both ourselves and our clients) can inform and enhance … ; ; 20 $2.00 Add
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The Power of sound

History and Biology

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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Dings, and bings, various ringtones, and device alert our brains. They make us react. Not merely attentionally but neurophysiologically as well. The two are strongly biologically attached. The … 19 $1.90 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Quake

From: On Opium

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As the author describes the upending of her life: the losses of the past months and years: her love, her family, her body, her work, her income, her freedom—treasured friendships, even. she … 15 $1.50 Add
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Two Fighters

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

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Wood begins the chapter discussing his friendship with Moaiad, a past roommate. His mother suggests tea when Wood is told the quit coffee, beginning his connection with peppermint tea. Wood … 13 $1.30 Add
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Outdoor Risky Play in Nature-based Therapy

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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The meaningful integration of environmental conditions and activity choices creates the milieu. Comfort with changing weather conditions, spending time in a forest, and getting dirty, wet, or … ; ; 19 $1.90 Add
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Rat Park

From: Fighting For Space

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This chapter highlights the research done by experimental psychologists since the 1960s in the addiction studies. Taking Skinner’s Box and juxta positioning it against the Rat Park … 23 $0.46 Add
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Representations of Addiction

The History and Continuing Repercussions of Canadian Drug Rhetoric

From: Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada

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Classifying Substances and Assessing their Use in Canada – The Cultural History of Canadian Drug Policy – Drug Panics, Political Rhetoric, and Mass Media Representations – … 24 $2.40 Add
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The Biological Science

What's Really Going on in Our Brains?

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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I am going to get down to the hard science: what really goes on in our brains when we overengage in i-tech. To this end, I will introduce modalities that permit us to examine the i-phenomenon at … 21 $2.10 Add
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A Tale of Instability in Seven Parts

Monsters

From: On Opium

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The author describes what suffering does to her body and mind and how the effort required to transcend it makes her feel like a monster. While her condition allows her to walk and run but not … 14 $1.40 Add
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Anxiety in the Masses

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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Anxiety and its little buddy stress are on the rise in adults and, most troubling, increasingly also in children, adolescents, and youth. We are all now consistently revving at much, much higher … 17 $1.70 Add