She bets her life
Subtitle: a true story of gambling addiction
By: Mary Sojourner
Publisher: Seal Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781580052986
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276).
Table of contents: title: Meet the sisters; title: Crossing the line : how a woman knows she's hooked; title: Dopamine is queen : gambling and the brain; title: Freud was wrong : psychodynamics of gambling addiction; title: Girls' night in : gender and women's gambling addiction; title: Get her to sit down : the industry's strategies to keep women playing; title: The party's : when it's time to stop; title: A long and winding road : withdrawal; title: What it takes : the reality of recovering; title: The slip : why she goes back out; title: It's a family affair; title: Down the road.