The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
In The Biology of Desire, Marc Lewis PhD argues that addiction is not a disease but a manifestation of the brain's learning and desire systems. Using neuroscience and personal accounts, he shows how habits form and how individuals can break free through understanding and change, challenging traditional disease models of addiction.
About This Book
The Biology of Desire presents a neuroscientific perspective on addiction, arguing that it stems from the brain's adaptive mechanisms rather than a pathological condition.
Drawing on personal stories and research, the book illustrates how desires and habits form through neural plasticity, offering a hopeful view of recovery as a process of rewiring.
Lewis, with his background in developmental neuroscience, emphasizes that understanding addiction this way can lead to more effective, non-medicalized approaches to overcoming it.
This work invites readers to reconsider societal and scientific narratives around substance use and behavioral dependencies.
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