ADDICTION AND CHOICE : rethinking the relationship.

ADDICTION AND CHOICE : rethinking the relationship.

Views on addiction are often polarised - either addiction is a matter of choice, or addicts simply can't help themselves. But perhaps addiction falls between the two? This book contains views from philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and the law exploring this middle ground between...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: OXFORD : OXFORD University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Compulsive behavior > Psychological aspects.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Compulsive behavior > Psychological aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Addiction and Choice: Rethinking the Relationship; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Section I Introduction; 1 On defining addiction; Section II Philosophical foundations; 2 How do you know you have a drug problem? The role of knowledge of negative consequences in explaining drug choice in humans and rats; 3 Addiction: the pleasures and perils of operant behavior; 4 Willing addicts? Drinkers, dandies, druggies, and other Dionysians; 5 Failures of rationality and self-​knowledge in addiction; 6 Normal and addictive desires
  • 7 Addiction, compulsion, and weakness of the will: a dual-​process perspective8 Addiction as a form of akrasia; Section III Perspectives from neuroscience; 9 Compulsion and choice in addiction; 10 Choice in addiction: a neural tug of war between impulse and insight; 11 Assessing drug choice in human addiction: costs, benefits, and findings from current research paradigms; 12 The role of the insula in goal-​directed drug seeking and choice in addiction; Section IV Perspectives from behavioral economics and cognitive psychology
  • 13 Palpating the elephant: current theories of addiction in light of hyperbolic delay discounting14 Addiction as social choice; 15 Nonconscious motivational influences on cognitive processes in addictive behaviors; 16 Self-​regulation, controlled processes, and the treatment of addiction; Section V Implications for treatment, prevention, and public health; 17 The blindfold of addiction; 18 Behavioral economics as a framework for brief motivational interventions to reduce addictive behaviors
  • 19 Role of choice biases and choice architecture in behavioral economic strategies to reduce addictive behaviors20 How an addict's power of choice is lost and can be regained; Section VI Implications for the public understanding of addiction and for legal responsibility for addictive behavior; 21 What addicts can teach us about addiction: a natural history approach; 22 How a stigmatic structure enslaves addicts; 23 Addiction, choice, and criminal law; Section VII Conclusions; 24 Ambiguous terms and false dichotomies; 25 Overview of addiction as a disorder of choice and future prospects

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