In the book, you make it clear that this is not a thing that happens to people who have somehow gone wrong in other ways. It was part of y self imposed idea of myself and who i was supposed to be,. That allowed me to say, i'm not a person with a diction. Augustine of hippo, an early christian theologian, said essentially the exact same thing. He noticed there was an indictive quality his own mind grasping after the need to show everyone that he wasOk.
Carl Erik Fisher is a psychiatrist, bioethicist and recovering alcoholic who has spent years tracing the history of addiction. His new book is The Urge: Our History of Addiction, a sweeping study of the issue and an urgent call for a more expansive, nuanced and compassionate view of one of society's most difficult challenges. In conversation with Carl is physicist, oceanographer and science presenter, Helen Czerski.
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