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Carl Erik Fisher
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Feb 23, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Jordan talks to Dr. Carl Erik Fisher (The Urge: Our History of Addiction) about perceiving addiction as a spectrum, the historical evolution of addiction as a concept, and the psychotic break that led to his own sobriety.
Mentioned:
Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England by Rebecca Lemon
The Faust legend
The American temperance movement
Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate by Walt Whitman
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. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and son
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Mentioned:
Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England by Rebecca Lemon
The Faust legend
The American temperance movement
Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate by Walt Whitman
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. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and son
For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com
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Released:
Feb 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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