Traction. World History of Dependence. Fisher K.

What is dependence? Is only alcoholism and drug addiction to it or are we also dependent on gambling, sex, food, work, smartphones and even love? Karl Eric Fisher is familiar with this ancient ailment is especially close-as a psychiatrist-narcologist and as a patient. For ten years, he conducted a study and wrote this book, considering the multifaceted history of dependence - medical, political, philosophical, cultural, religious. Fisher set the goal of not only to study all possible drugs and methods of therapy, but also to find out why the disease that affected the lives of millions of people is still causing condemnation and misunderstanding.

How do we fall into a trap of dependence and why is it so difficult for us to get out of it even in the face of death? Can I even eradicate it? And what does the recovery resist in our body? One thing is obvious: you need to start the path to healing with compassion. After all, only it will allow us to shift the focus from the disease to its victims and understand how to help them.