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A psychiatrist in recovery explores the addictions in all of us, integrating science, philosophy, and the art of flourishing in recovery. Columbia…
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Unwinding Self-Addiction, with Dr. Jud Brewer | Flourishing After Addiction #41
"I’ve never found a case where I was taking something personally and wasn’t suffering."
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A Book Deal (and some great interviews)!
Self-control and everyday addictions, emotional sobriety, and more
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Self-Control Matters in Addiction
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What Is It Like to Be an Addict? with Prof. Owen Flanagan | Flourishing After Addiction #40
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Toward a Unified Field Theory of Human Flourishing | Frameworks #1
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Understanding self-control
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On the false dichotomy between harm reduction and abstinence
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What makes the internet addictive?
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What Is It Like to Be an Addict? with Prof. Owen Flanagan | Flourishing After Addiction #40
"One cannot have a complete theory of addiction without incorporating the addict’s experience. Listen carefully to what addicts say about what it is…
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Understanding self-control
trying not to doomscroll and snack my way to misery. doing the things that wisdom dictates instead.
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My NY Times Essay: What Sports Betting Reveals About Addiction
What’s different now isn’t the underlying susceptibility, it’s that technology and concentrated commercial power have made these vulnerabilities…
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Self-Control Matters in Addiction
The biomechanical disease folks are right that there is a there there, that when people with addiction say they feel powerless, we should take them (us…
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How AI Reflects and Reinforces Mental Health Stigma
Our paper in BMJ Mental Health: AI-generated imagery often amplifies harmful stereotypes about mental disorders. How models like DALL-E 3 and Midjourney…
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What makes the internet addictive?
The next hellsites. What makes us stay online. Bluesky. The allure of simplicity and the inexorable pull toward complex design features eroding our…
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Fentanyl Nation: Toxic Politics and America’s Failed War on Drugs, with Ryan Hampton | Flourishing After Addiction #39
"Without question, the biggest barrier I see ahead of us is politics. In such a polarized moment, addiction is a rare subject on which most of us…
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Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher
Rat Park with Carl Erik Fisher
A psychiatrist in recovery explores the addictions in all of us, integrating science, philosophy, and the art of flourishing in recovery. Columbia University bioethicist, author of THE URGE: OUR HISTORY OF ADDICTION, a New Yorker Best Book of 2022.
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