18 best-selling nonfiction books like Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel

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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

By: Judith Grisel

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessibl…

"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

By: Russell Brand

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, fo… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The condition in extreme is identifiable but the less obvious version of addiction is still painful and arguably worse because we simply adapt to living in pain."

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

"The reason I continue to is because they have awakened me to the impossibility of happiness based on my previous world view: that I am the centre of the world and that what I want is important."

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

"The feeling you have that 'there's something else' is real. What happens when you don't follow the compulsion? What is on the other side of my need [...]? The only way to find out is to not do it, an…"

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

"The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately 'being human' in an environment that i…"

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

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2. Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy

By: David Sheff

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A myth-shattering look at drug abuse and addiction treatment, based on cutting-edge research Addict… read more

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  • science
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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3. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

By: Gabor Maté

4.49

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • health
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

4. The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

By: Marc Lewis

3.45

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned … read more

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5. World After Capital

By: None

2.57

Format: None pages,

Technological progress has shifted scarcity for humanity. When we were foragers, food was scarce. D… read more

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6. Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

By: Catherine Gildiner

4.46

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her m… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering."

-Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

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7. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

By: Anna Lembke

3.91

Format: 304 pages, ebook

This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"

-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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8. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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9. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

By: Sara Manning Peskin

4.21

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

By: Laura McKowen

4.33

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

"A masterpiece. The truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s goin… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe it’s helpful to linger there for a minute, in the terrible and the necessary. To start to see them as the same. Maybe in this way, pain is not such a problem"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"The typical question is, Is this bad enough for me to have to change? The question we should be asking is, Is this good enough for me to stay the same? And the real question underneath it all is, Am …"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"The truest story - the one that will always be truest - is that I am a human being, being human. Sometimes, I am my best self. Sometimes, not so much. But goddamn, I am trying to do better. I am alwa…"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"Lying and withholding is the cheapest, easiest way to control others. You control their perception, control their response to you, control who you need them to be, In telling the truth, I was surrend…"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

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11. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

By: Holly Whitaker

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical new path to sobriety. “You don… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"OK,"

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

"Alcohol is the only drug in the world where, when you stop taking it, you are seen as having a disease."

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

"...we've reached a tipping point--more [women] are aware of the terms of our own oppression and of our complicity in the oppression of others."

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

"Americans aren't stupid. We are, however, preternaturally disposed to herd behavior (FOMO), with a strong desire to preserve a sense of individuality and maintain control over our decision making. We…"

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

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12. The Urge: Our History of Addiction

By: Carl Erik Fisher

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation …"

-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction

"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synt…"

-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction

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13. Atenție cu intenție

By: Dragoș Pătraru

4.76

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

O carte despre prezent care te provoacă să te gândești la viitor Democrație și dezbinare, ecolog… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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14. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction

By: Maia Szalavitz

4.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

By: J.S. Park

4.63

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio… read more

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  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

"Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radi…"

-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve

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16. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

By: Judith Grisel

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessibl… read more

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  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

"I'd sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved."

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

"A victim of virtually any disease usually elicits pity, addicts mostly evoke revulsion. What is it about the irrational behavior of an addict that makes everyone want to turn away?"

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

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17. Alimentatia Bogata In Fibre

By: Will Bulsiewicz

4.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Programul pentru sanatatea digestiva care te va ajuta sa slabesti, sa-ti recapeti sanatatea si sa-t… read more

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  • health
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18. Stăpânii hranei: Călătorie în industria alimentară care distruge planeta

By: Stefano Liberti

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Concentratul de roșii care călătorește din China în Europa pentru ca apoi să ajungă să fie procesat… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. The Self-Talk Workout

By: Rachel Goldsmith Turow

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Self-talk matters, but what methods of building healthy self-talk actually work? This how-to guide … read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power

By: Lisa Mosconi

3.94

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

How to eat for maximum brain power and health from an expert in both neuroscience and nutrition. … read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
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  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • science
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21. Understanding Addiction: Know Science, No Stigma

By: Charles Smith

4.22

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

Understanding Know Science, No Stigma is a must-read for those suffering from the tragic effects o… read more

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13 Top audiobook books like Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel

Transform Your Habits

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

Russell Brand

3.95

Transform Your Habits

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Gabor Maté

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Catherine Gildiner

4.46

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke

3.91

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Transform Your Habits

The Enzyme Factor

Hiromi Shinya

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Second Curve: Thoughts on Reinventing Society

Charles B. Handy

4.29

Transform Your Habits

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Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak

4.44

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Jessie Inchauspé

4.44

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