Highly Recommended Book!

Compassionate insight into the "addictive personality"

I downloaded and read The Answer Model, A New Path to Healing (2010), by John Montgomery and Todd Ritchey, this weekend and found much of what it offers as being very helpful and probably quite true.  I highly recommend reading it.  It basically suggests that nearly all mental/psych dysfunction is related to addiction to the neuro-chemical effects of feeling states that evolved long ago to enable the human species to survive and procreate in a hunter-gatherer society context.  We are essentially suffering from a mismatch between our biological design and the world we have created for ourselves which makes it extremely difficult to achieve and maintain internal homeostasis (equanimity).   Montgomery's series of 6 short articles in Psychology Today entitled The Embodied Mind also provides a good overview of his viewpoint and approach:  https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-embodied-mind