Tag: Desire

Free Download Robert Hanning, "Serious Play: Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto"
English | 2010 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 0231152108 | EPUB | 2,2 mb
Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe’s three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, and disturbing fantasy, an achievement hailed as serio ludere, serious play, by Renaissance theorists.

Free Download John Eldredge, "Desire Study Guide"
English | 2007 | pages: 130 | ISBN: 1418528579 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
"Above all else," Scripture urges, "guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life" -Proverbs 4:23

Free Download The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (Audiobook)
English | July 21, 2015 | ASIN: B0128B4HX4 | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 40m | 210.85 MB
Author: Marc Lewis PhD
Narrator: Don Hagen
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease based on evidence that brains change with drug use. But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing. Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it’s supposed to do – seek pleasure and relief – in a world that’s not cooperating. Brains are designed to restructure themselves with normal learning and development, but this process is accelerated in addiction when highly attractive rewards are pursued repeatedly. Lewis shows why treatment based on the disease model so often fails and how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery, given the realities of brain plasticity. Combining intimate human stories with clearly rendered scientific explanation, The Biology of Desire is enlightening and optimistic listening for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.

Free Download Desire: An Inclusive Guide to Navigating Libido Differences in Relationships (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNSXGP5Y | 2023 | 8 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Lauren Fogel Mersy, Jennifer A. Vencill
Narrator: Samara Naeymi
A radically inclusive, sex-positive guide to managing the inevitable libido differences in our relationships, authored by two certified sex therapists who are passionate about good sex. Desire invites listeners of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, and relationship structures to shed the shame and misinformation that surround the topic of sex and instead learn from 2 certified sex therapists about how libido really works. Desire differences are one of the most common relationship issues, yet, with fewer than 1100 certified sex therapists in the country, it can be difficult to find help. Included are dozens of techniques, exercises, checklists, and journal prompts for listeners to use at their own pace to fit their needs, including mindfulness, body mapping, and sensate focus. Whatever your identity, sexual practices, or reason for picking up this book, Desire will help you reach your personal sexual health goals.