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Bezig met laden... Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering (origineel 2016; editie 2016)door David A. Kessler M.D. (Auteur)
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Why do we think, feel, and act in ways we wish we did not? For decades, Dr. David A Kessler has studied this question with regard to tobacco, food, and drugs. Over the course of these investigations, he identified one underlying mechanism common to a broad range of human suffering. This phenomenon--capture--is the process by which our attention is hijacked and our brains commandeered by forces outside our control. In this book, Dr. Kessler considers some of the most profound questions we face as human beings: What are the origins of mental afflictions, from everyday unhappiness to addiction and depression--and how are they connected? Where does healing and transcendence fit into this realm of emotional experience? Analyzing an array of insights from psychology, medicine, neuroscience, literature, philosophy, and theology, Dr. Kessler deconstructs centuries of thinking, examining the central role of capture in mental illness and questioning traditional labels that have obscured our understanding of it. With a new basis for understanding the phenomenon of capture, he explores the concept through the emotionally resonant stories of both well-known and unknown people caught in its throes. The closer we can come to fully comprehending the nature of capture, Dr. Kessler argues, the better the chance to alleviate its deleterious effects and successfully change our thinking and behaviors. Ultimately, Capture offers insight into how we form thoughts and emotions, manage trauma, and heal. For the first time, we can begin to understand the underpinnings not only of mental illness but also of our everyday worries and anxieties. Capture is an intimate and critical exploration of the most enduring human mystery of all: the mind.--Adapted from dust jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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According to Kessler, "capture" is what happens when the attention system of the brain is overwhelmed by some stimulus and the brain (and the person attached to it) is unable to break free, with mostly deleterious consequences. Anxiety, depression, psychosis, violence, addiction, ideology--all are, in his view, examples of a larger system failure he calls "capture."
Interesting theory, but he provides absolutely nothing to support it. First he describes the attention system, then he gives hundreds of pages of separate and unconnected anecdotes about people who suffered from one of the above afflictions, claiming that they show "capture" in action, and then the book ends with the vague idea that one negative capture might be replaced by another, stronger, positive one (religion--ugh--or maybe nature or something). This is, he says, a matter of choice, which is not the same as willpower, though his description of what makes one different from the other is ... well, nonexistent.
Maybe at some point someone with actual credentials in the fields of psychology or neuroscience will come up with a testable hypothesis on this idea and conduct some science to support or discredit it. This book comes nowhere close to doing that. ( )