Summary: Absolute must for those who want to dive deeper into the topic of depression and anxiety. In this lightly written book, Johann Hari depicts an authentic and widely diversified face of our mental breakdown. While travelling across the globe, in the pursuit of people’s testimony and stories as well as of scientific insights, he gives us the very essence of these prevalent mental diseases of our times.

My personal take:

Importantly, we can get to know why depression and anxiety are so often swept under the rug. Eyes opener.

Summary: Grabbing for this position is a total must for everybody looking for explanation on their relationship dynamics and co – dependency. The author not only clarifies the concept of love addiction, its complexity and roots but she also enriches the book with referring to her own love codependency.

Summary: Phenomenally well written book that gives deeper insight into addictions and addicts’ life. In the book we can find not only examples of patients struggling with their hardships caused by addiction, but also scientific insight into addictive set of behaviors

Summary: Phenomenally well written book that gives deeper insight into addictions and addicts’ life. In the book we can find not only examples of patients struggling with their hardships caused by addiction, but also scientific insight into addictive set of behaviors

Summary: This position reveals all traps and tricks developed by addicted brain. Highly recommended for those searching for better life in recovery

Summary: This book presents, in an easy and smooth way, the field of sexual addiction (with a great emphasis on cybersex addiction) and its all dimensions.

Summary: The book that should be a must for all of those who want to deepen their knowledge in shame in families. Profoundly explains how shame is involuntarily transferred between family members, how it can be discovered and unarmed. This positions gives a rich look into all roots for shameful patterns of thinking with great references to addictive and abusive behaviors

Summary: One of the best scientific positions describing in a detailed way reasons and origins for human behavior. The book answers questions such as what makes us human and why we do things we do. A must for everybody that loves indulge himself in a scientific and historic world.

Summary: The book in a very easy and comprehensible way pinpoints our cognitive and repetitive patterns of behaviors. For everybody who not only wants to understand what exactly stands behind his habits, but also how successfully may change his unconscious routine into a conscious set of desired behaviors

Summary: The book can be read as a form of a dissertation on what addiction truly is. Its author, a cognitive neuroscientist, explains why addiction is rather a behavioral disorder ceaselessly stimulating our reward system. Despite its depth and scientific insight, The Biology of Desire is written in a very smooth and easy way, and is for everybody that needs some positivism and inspiration in reshaping his addictive behavior

Summary: Although Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ book does not touch struggling with addiction, her work is a great set of wise folk tales and legend interpreted from the psychoanalysis perspective. The reader can find out not only about deep and universal tales meanings but also get a truly deep insight into a female psyche and their wilderness. Spiritual journey.

Summary: How starvation develops eating disorders. The experiment conducted by University of Minnesota (1944) known as Minnesota Starvation Experiment unveiled additional triggers that have extremely high influence on developing eating disorders. As it turned out, our extreme life experience, as starving, changes our emotional and cognitive processes for good as well as our eating habits, which in turn can turn into obsessive – compulsive disorder. The experiment is one of so-called eye- openers.