The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning

A profound, humane, and revolutionary new framework for understanding and addressing addiction.

Addiction has been called a moral failing, a social problem, a spiritual crisis, a behavioral disorder, and a brain disease. It has also been called a class issue, a supply problem, a problem of learning, a memory disorder, and a result of trauma. And some propose that addiction is neither a disease nor a problem, but a transgressive expression of freedom, a maligned sub—cu...