Craving for ecstasy and natural highs :
Milkman, Harvey B.
Craving for ecstasy and natural highs : a positive approach to mood alteration / Harvey B. Milkman, Stanley Sunderwirth. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2010. - xxvii, 464 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-442) and index.
Addiction to experience -- Pleasure and the brain -- Hey, what's in this stuff anyway? -- The great psychiatric tavern -- Self-medication -- Eating for a change -- Stress hormone highs -- Rock around the clock -- Virtual reality and electronic bogeymen -- Fantasy and the drug experience -- Compelled by fantasy -- Love or addiction -- Marijuana: reefer madness revisited -- Romantic sex fantasy -- The voyage of hardship and suffering -- The cognitive-behavioral revolution: how to manage thoughts, feelings and behaviors -- Maintaining close and intmate relationships -- Relaxation, mindfullness and meditation -- Eating yourself fit -- Exercise: the magic bullet -- Meaningful engagement of talents.
9781412956734 (pbk.)
2008051983
Adjustment (Psychology)
Compulsive behavior.
Mood (Psychology)
BF335 / .M53 2010
616.85/84
Craving for ecstasy and natural highs : a positive approach to mood alteration / Harvey B. Milkman, Stanley Sunderwirth. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2010. - xxvii, 464 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-442) and index.
Addiction to experience -- Pleasure and the brain -- Hey, what's in this stuff anyway? -- The great psychiatric tavern -- Self-medication -- Eating for a change -- Stress hormone highs -- Rock around the clock -- Virtual reality and electronic bogeymen -- Fantasy and the drug experience -- Compelled by fantasy -- Love or addiction -- Marijuana: reefer madness revisited -- Romantic sex fantasy -- The voyage of hardship and suffering -- The cognitive-behavioral revolution: how to manage thoughts, feelings and behaviors -- Maintaining close and intmate relationships -- Relaxation, mindfullness and meditation -- Eating yourself fit -- Exercise: the magic bullet -- Meaningful engagement of talents.
9781412956734 (pbk.)
2008051983
Adjustment (Psychology)
Compulsive behavior.
Mood (Psychology)
BF335 / .M53 2010
616.85/84