She Bets Her Life: A True Story of Gambling Addiction
What Sets She Bets Her Life Apart is Mary Sojourner's ability to take both an objective and a deeply personal look at the psychological and physiological impact of gambling addiction on women. Having lived it, Sojourner is brutally forthcoming, and with her penchant for research and fact-finding, the narrative is teeming with important information and resources to help steer women (and their loved ones) toward help and healing.
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What sets She Bets Her Life apart is Mary Sojourner's ability to take both an objective and a deeply personal look at the psychological and physiological impact of gambling addiction on women. Having lived it, Sojourner is brutally forthcoming, and with her penchant for research and fact-finding, the narrative is teeming with important information and resources to help steer women with gambling addictions (and their loved ones) toward help and healing.
User's Guide 9Introduction 13Chapter 1 Meet the Sisters 23Chapter 2 Crossing the Line: How a Woman Knows She's Hooked 55Chapter 3 Dopamine is Queen: Gambling and the Brain 64Chapter 4 Freud Was Wrong: Psychodynamics of Gambling Addiction 83Chapter 5 Girls' Night In: Gender and Women's Gambling Addiction 108Chapter 6 Get Her to Sit Down: The Industry's Strategies to Keep Women Playing 131Chapter 7 The Party's Over: When It's Time to Stop 152Chapter 8 A Long and Winding Road: Withdrawal 168Chapter 9 What it Takes: The Reality of Recovering 191Chapter 10 The Slip: Why She Goes Back Out 213Chapter 11 It's a Family Affair 229Chapter 12 Down the Road 242Resources 269
