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Wild hunger : the primal roots of modern addiction / Bruce Wilshire.

Title
Wild hunger : the primal roots of modern addiction / Bruce Wilshire.
Author
Wilshire, Bruce W.
Publication
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c1998.

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Description
xv, 285 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Finding cures for addiction in the wilderness and the arts.
Subject
  • Dependency (Psychology)
  • Compulsive behavior > Psychological aspects
  • Senses and sensation
  • Human behavior
  • Substance abuse > Psychological aspects
  • Compulsive Behavior > psychology
  • Behavior, Addictive
  • Dependency, Psychological
  • Sensation
  • Substance-Related Disorders > psychology
  • Behavior
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-276) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Part I. Nature's regenerative cycles. Ecstasy deprivation and addictive "Remedies" -- Rediscovering space, time, body, self -- Circular power returning into itself -- The intimate otherness of body-self's world: addiction as frightened response.
  • Part II. Addiction: circular power short-circuited. The more than merely human: hunger to belong -- Medical materialism and the fragmented grasp of addiction -- Possession, addiction, fragmentation: is a healing community possible? -- Smoking as ritual, smoking as addiction -- Body, nose, viscera, earth -- Art and truth.
  • Part III. Harmony with nature. Mother nature: circular power returning into itself -- Technology as ecstasy: how to deal with it? -- The awesome world.
ISBN
0847689670 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98003356^
OCLC
38557217
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library