Dr. Carl Erik Fisher - The Complex History Of Addiction

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Connor Beaton

Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It goes without saying that the more informed you are on the nature of addiction, the easier it is to see and break the patterns that trap you or the people you care about—addiction can be a LOT more subtle and nuanced than you think. So this week, I asked Dr. Carl Erik Fisher to dig into his new book, The Urge: Our History Of Addiction. It's a profoundly empathetic, personal, and intelligent book, and if you like this episode you'll want to check it out. We cover how addiction was perceived by ancient cultures and philosophers, how societies and communities have responded from Ancient Grecians to Native Americans, why community plays a huge role, the difficulty of boundaries and interventions, and a lot more. Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction physician and bioethicist. He is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, where he works in the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry. He also maintains a private psychiatry practice focusing on complementary and integrative approaches to treating addiction. His writing has appeared in Nautilus, Slate, and Scientific American MIND, among other outlets. Connect with Carl: -Website: https://www.carlerikfisher.com/ -Book: The Urge: Our History Of Addiction: https://www.carlerikfisher.com/book -Podcast: https://podcast.carlerikfisher.com/ -Twitter: https://twitter.com/drcarlerik -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drcarlerik/ -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrCarlErik Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Man Talk Show.
0:12.2	And joining me today is Carl Eric Fisher.
0:16.6	Carl Fisher is an addiction physician and bioethicist.
0:21.7	He is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, where he works
0:26.4	in the division of law, ethics, and psychiatry.
0:29.9	He also maintains a private psychiatry practice focusing on complementary and integrative
0:34.7	approaches to treating addiction.
0:37.8	His writing has appeared in Nautilus, Slate, and Scientific American Mind, among other outlets.
0:45.3	He's also recently written a book called The Urge, Our History of Addiction.
0:52.5	And that's primarily what we're going to talk about today. It's a very
0:57.0	interesting conversation where we talk a little bit about the actual history of addiction
1:01.8	within our human species from a very broad sense and then from an American or sort of North
1:10.2	American Western sense within the last 500 years.
1:13.7	And we take a few different approaches to today's conversation, which I found quite fascinating.
1:19.3	We talk a little bit about not only the history of addiction.
1:22.5	We talk about the history of treatment.
1:24.0	We talk about the perspectives that we have adopted all the way from Aristotle to
1:29.7	present day moments. So it's a bit of an interesting conversation about what addiction is,
1:35.2	how it comes about, how we as human beings have tried to relate to addiction and people that have addictions.
1:45.7	So I hope that you enjoy this conversation,
1:47.9	whether you know someone that has battled addiction or you yourself have gone through that.
1:53.8	This is just a really, in my opinion, generative conversation about everything addiction related.
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