Carl Erik Fisher on The History of Addiction
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction physician, bioethics scholar, and author He is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and also hosts the podcast “Flourishing After Addiction”
In this episode, Eric and Carl Erik Fisher discuss his book, The Urge: Our History of Addiction.
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Carl Erik Fisher and I Discuss The History of Addiction and …
- His book, The Urge: Our History of Addiction.
- Recognizing the paradigm of disordered choice in addiction
- The different approaches to understanding choices for addicts
- Psychological flexibility and how
- Society’s categorical views of treatment approaches to addiction
- Placebo effects in treating addiction
- The dangers of labeling “good” drugs and “bad” drugs
- Drug policies and why there is no simple formula for treating addiction
- How addiction is part of the human condition
- Defining recovery capital
- Understanding there are many different pathways to recovery
- The step care model and one size fits all model of recover
- The spiritual practice that he developed in recovery
- Knowing that the key to overcoming addiction is to try
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| 0:00.0 | Choose whatever variety of psychological suffering you want to, whether it's extreme depression |
| 0:04.2 | or extreme anxiety or obsessional thinking or whatever. |
| 0:06.9 | That's not neatly demarcated from the rest of humankind. |
| 0:10.4 | For me, as a psychiatrist, when I can meet my patients or other sufferers who are struggling |
| 0:15.5 | with those types of conditions, I can always see myself in them. |
| 0:26.2 | Welcome to The One You Feed. |
| 0:28.2 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes |
| 0:32.9 | like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:38.4 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:42.6 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear. |
| 0:47.3 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:50.2 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:53.7 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:55.7 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:57.1 | It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 1:02.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how |
| 1:06.4 | they feed their good wolf. |
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| 1:29.5 | unlikely art heist of all time. |
| 1:32.4 | It was Nick Cage's own personal, national treasure. |
| 1:36.7 | At a 1999 New Year's Eve party, someone snatched Cage's priceless comics. |
| 1:44.4 | But who? |
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