Valentish Everything harder than everyone else

Why some of us push our bodies to extremes
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6218-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

From abstinence to ego, mastery to addiction, rage to reinvention, our compulsions are intertwined with our personas. Darkly funny and vividly penetrating, Everything Harder Than Everyone Else explores our deeper selves and asks: what are your limits?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valentish, Jenny

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Extremsportarten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue
1 Running from the Void
2 Testing the Limits of Lust
3 Human Guinea Pigs
4 Larger than Life
5 Altered States
6 The Art of Suffering
7 Anger is An Energy
8 Throwing in the Towel
9 To the Death
Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Jenny Valentish is the author of the acclaimed addiction memoir Woman of Substances, a regular contributor to The Guardian, Vice and the Sydney Morning Herald, and a former NME columnist and editor of Time Out Melbourne. She grew up in Slough and lives in Australia.