Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs explores positive ways of conquering cravings and achieving lasting happiness

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (June 8, 2009) – Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive Approach to Mood Alteration is a new book published this month by SAGE that is called a “tour de force” by the director of Harvard’s Division on Addictions.

Almost everyone faces harmful cravings that are difficult or impossible to control. This work by Harvey B. Milkman and Stanley Sunderwirth explores the human pursuit of counterfeit pleasures and answers the fundamental questions surrounding how that pursuit can lead to compulsion – and ultimately a loss of control.

Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs provides critical insight on how to elevate one’s quality of life, as well as how to offer support to clients, students, family, and friends whose lives may be compromised by pleasure-seeking dependencies.

Readers interested in discovering healthy ways to alter their consciousness will find this book compelling. It’s a compendium of cross-disciplinary research in psychology, positive psychology, sociology, neuroscience, addiction, and health that is accessible to the average lay person.  

Howard J. Shaffer, PhD, director of the Harvard Division on Addictions, called it “a beautifully written and organized book... a thrill ride through the most innovative and insightful perspectives that science and clinical experience have to offer... hip and artistic, reflecting a deep understanding of addiction... a major contribution to the field; it is must reading.”

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Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs

July 2009paper

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