She bets her life
Subtitle: the true story of a gambling addict and the women who saved her life
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
Subjects: Compulsive gamblers; Gambling
Table of contents: title: Meet Scheherazade's 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 over: when it's time to stop; title: A long and winding road : withdrawal; title: What it takes : the reality of recovering; title: Slip : why she goes back out; title: It's a family affair; title: Where the Scheherazade's sisters are now.