Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1416537937 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Waited by the phone, changed our plansBut are we in love, or is there something darker at work? In Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, Susan Cheever explores the shifting boundaries between the feelings of passion and addiction, desire and need, and she raises provocative and important questions about who we love and why. In the end, there are no easy answers. We've all felt the giddy flutter of excitement when our new lover walks into the room. Elegantly written and thoughtfully composed, Cheever's book combines unsparing and intimate memoir, interviews and stories, hard science and psychology to explore the difference between falling in love and falling prey to an addiction. Part one defines what addiction is and how it works -- the obsession, the betrayals, the broken promises to oneself and others. "A str
She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author's Guild Council. She teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program. Susan Cheever is the bestselling author of thirteen previous books, including five novels and the memoirs Note Found in a Bottle and Home Before Dark. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship Medal. . She li
Exploring Desire and Addiction prisrob Susan Cheever is most often mentioned as the daughter of literary great, John Cheever. However, with this book she has entered a new arena of her own. With this book, Susan has presented us with a novel that explains that sex addiction should be treated not as a failure of morality or character but as a disease of brain biochemistry resulting from a combination of genetics and life events. T. Stephen T. Hopkins said Musings. Susan Cheever muses about her own life and shares personal stories and insight in her new book, Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction. I finished the book drawing the conclusion that anything can be addictive, and that we don't know the cause of addiction. Cheever doesn't pretend to be an expert on addiction, but addiction has been a constant companion throughout her life. By the end of the book. Lacking in Insight J. Price I found the author's almost exclusive focus on experiences of her own and those within her social circle irritating and elitist. Cheever also seems preoccupied with proving that she's a victim of sexual addiction. The resulting tone of the book made it difficult for me to relate or empathize. I didn't find anything in the book particularly insightful. I'm sure that sex addicts do exist, and
Her cultural subjects are titillating enough and range from the voyeurism of To Catch a Predator to speculation that Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, struggled to hide a sex addiction. But for Cheever, a lover's destructive behavior can be just as traumatizing as that of an alcoholic, a bulimic or a compulsive gambler. Cheever is best when writing personally; her candid memories of emotionally abusive parents, repeated adultery and consuming love drive an otherwise meandering text. From Publishers Weekly We are a nation of puritanical love junkies, proclaims Cheever (My Name Is Bill) in her inquiry into the growing scientific and psychological evidence that suggests a chemical basis for sex addiction. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. But the reader strains to connect slim narrative threads of this unstructured meditation on obsession. Drawing on a hodge-p