Peter C. Whybrow

American Mania: When More Is Not Enough

Buch

Despite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, depression, obesity, and time urgency are now grudgingly accepted as part of everyday existence they signal the American Dream gone awry.Peter C. Whybrow, director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, grounds the extraordinary achievements and excessive consumption of the American nation in an understanding of the biology of the brain's reward system offering for the first time a comprehensive and physical explanation for the addictive mania of consumerism.Amer… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-32849-3
EAN: 9780393328493
Produktnummer: 19443505
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 338 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.3 cm 454 g
Gewicht: 454

Über den Autor

Peter C. Whybrow, MD, is director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles. Born and educated in England, he is the author, among other books, of A Mood Apart and the award-winning American Mania: When More Is Not Enough.