| Description |
xx, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Disordered appetites : addiction, compulsion, and dependence / Gary Watson -- Freedom of the will and addiction / Olav Gjelsvik -- The neurobiology and genetics of addiction : implications of the "reward deficiency syndrome" for therapeutic strategies in chemical dependency / Eliot L. Gardner -- Addiction as impeded rationality / Helge Waal and Jørg Mørland -- Hyperbolic discounting, willpower, and addiction / Ole-Jørgen Skog -- Addiction and self-control / Ted O'Donoghue and Matthew Rabin -- The intuitive explanation of passionate mistakes and why it's not adequate / George Ainslie -- Emotion and addiction : neurobiology, culture, and choice / Jon Elster -- Addicts as objects of study : clinical encounters in the 1920s / Caroline Jean Acker. |
| Summary |
"Addiction focuses on the emergence, nature, and persistence of addictive behaviors, as well as the efforts of addicts to overcome their condition. Do addicts act of their own free will, or are they driven by forces beyond their control? Do structured treatment programs offer more hope for recovery? What causes relapses to occur? Recent scholarship has focused attention on the voluntary aspects of addiction, particularly the role played by choice. Addiction draws upon this new research and the investigations of economists, psychiatrists, philosophers, neuropharmachologists, historians, and sociologists to offer important new insights into the sad puzzle of addictive behavior."--Jacket. |
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Addicts -- Psychology.
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Substance abuse -- Etiology.
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Self-control.
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Substance-Related Disorders -- psychology.
(DNLM)D019966Q000523
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Motivation. (DNLM)D009042
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Compulsive Behavior. (DNLM)D003192
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71.66 addiction as a social problem. (NL-LeOCL)077597400
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Addicts -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst00796515
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Self-control. (OCoLC)fst01111538
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Substance abuse -- Etiology.
(OCoLC)fst01136777
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Verslaving.
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Ontwenning.
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Biologische aspecten.
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Gedrag.
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| Added Author |
Elster, Jon, 1940-
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| ISBN |
0871542358 (alk. paper) |
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9780871542359 (alk. paper) |
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