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Also by Peter C. Whybrow:

American Mania, May 2006
Hardcover

AMERICAN MANIA
By: Peter C. Whybrow

When More Is Not Enough

W. W. Norton
May 2006
On Sale: April 24, 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 039332849X
EAN: 9780393328493
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Despite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, depression, obesity, and time urgency are now grudgingly accepted as part of everyday existence—they signal the American Dream gone awry.

Peter C. Whybrow, director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA, grounds the extraordinary achievements and excessive consumption of the American nation in an understanding of the biology of the brain's reward system—offering for the first time a comprehensive and physical explanation for the addictive mania of consumerism. American Mania presents a clear and novel vantage point from which to understand the most pressing social issues of our time, while offering an informed approach to refocusing our pursuit of happiness.

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