Strong Feelings Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior

"On the emotions, FEELINGS presents much of the same material as ALCHEMIES. But it also contains an interesting and very useful discussion of addiction. Elster lists the principal features of addiction: the euphoria and the painful withdrawal, the way in which addictions are aroused by various cues, the denials of the addict, the struggles for self-control, the sad relapses. He notes the way in which even serious substance addictions are "reward-sensitive"....Eventually, clearly, an increased understanding of the neurophysiological bases of addiction will come about. Meanwhile, FEELINGS is a useful and consistently sensible and interesting tour of the phenomenon."Elster, Jon is the author of 'Strong Feelings Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior', published 1999 under ISBN 9780262050562 and ISBN 0262050560.