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Book Group - "Unbroken Brain" by Maia Szalavitz
Jun 4, Time: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Location: Lubec Memorial Library, 55 Water St., Lubec
The Lubec Memorial Library will host its fifth selection in its addiction book group series exploring the cultural and historical context of addiction, substance use, and treatment with Maia Szalavitz's Unbroken Brain. St. Martin's Press, 2016.
"Challenging both the idea of the addict's "broken brain" and the notion of a simple" addictive personality," Unbroken Brain offers a radical and groundbreaking new perspective, arguing that addictions are learning disorders and shows how seeing the condition this way can untangle our current debates over treatment, prevention and policy. Like autistic traits, addictive behaviors fall on a spectrum — and they can be a normal response to an extreme situation. By illustrating what addiction is, and is not, the book illustrates how timing, history, family, peers, culture and chemicals come together to create both illness and recovery- and why there is no "addictive personality" or single treatment that works for all.
Combining Maia's personal story with a distillation of more than 25 years of science and research, Unbroken Brain provides a paradigm-shifting approach to thinking about addiction."
Contact the Lubec Library in person, by email at contact@lubeclibrary.org, or call (207) 733-2491 to obtain a copy of the book made available through the generous support of Maine Humanities Council.
The first meeting will take place Thursday, June 4, from 5:30 — 6:30 pm. Subsequent meetings will occur weekly on Thursdays or at the discretion of the assembled group.
More information about the book can be found at https://maiasz.com/books/unbroken-brain. Further inquiries can be directed to Amy Zipperer at amy.a.zipperer@gmail.com.
For more information:
Lubec Memorial Library – Lubec, Maine
207-733-2491