<h5><p> Nobody has had an answer for why people with addictions continue to repeat them -- until now. </p></h5> <p> For more than twenty years, distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes has been successfully helping people master their addictions -- alcoholism, compulsive gambling, smoking, sexual addiction, and more with a radical approach. Dr. Dodes describes how all addictions have, at their heart, unrecognized emotional factors that explain: </p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Why we feel the impulse</li> <li>Why we feel it when we do</li> <li>What alternatives (really) work in that critical moment</li> </ul> <p> In this refreshing book filled with compelling case studies, Dr. Dodes debunks several such widely accepted myths as: </p> <ul type="disc"> <li>Addictions are fundamentally a physical problem.</li> <li>People with addictions are different from other people.</li> <li>You have to hit bottom before you can get well.</li> <li>You are wasting your time if you ask "why" you have an addiction.</li> </ul>