"Midbrain Mutiny examines different economic models of disordered gambling, using the frameworks of neuroeconomics (which analyzes decision making in the brain) and picoeconomics (which analyzes patterns of consumption behavior), and drawing on empirical evidence about behavior …
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The Myth of Sex Addiction presents the history and questionable science underlying the alleged disorder of sex addiction, exposing the moral and cultural judgements that are embedded in the concept, as well as the significant economic factors that drive the label of sex addictio…
"In this controversial new book, David Ley debunks the myth of sex addiction, showing how labeling it a disorder has wrested responsibility away from philandering men and excused their bad behavior as being out of their control. He takes on those who would label it a disease and…
What's wrong with being a "people pleaser?" Plenty! "A fascinating book ... If you struggle with where, when, and how to draw the line between your own desires and the demands of others, buy this book!"ƯƯKay Redfield Jamison, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls…
The Disease to Please gives clear, positive, practical, and easily do-able steps toward recovery from a malady that sounds harmless, but can actually have serious and destructive consequences. You will embark on a 21-day Action Plan for Curing the Disease to Please. In the step-…
This book deals with the intertwining of addiction and responsibility in personal, philosophical, legal, research, and clinical contexts. Addictive behavior threatens not just the addict's happiness and health but also the welfare and well-being of others. It represents a loss o…
Seventeen contributions from Alexander (Concordia U., Montreal), Roberts (philosophy, SUNY, Stony Brook), and other scholars take a cultural studies approach to addiction. The volume opens with an essay by Jacques Derrida on the rhetoric of drugs. Other topics include Walter Ben…
Women and addiction: a comprehensive handbook
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This collaborative text reviews the science on sex and gender differences in substance use disorders. It illustrate how biological and psychosocial factors influence the etiology and epidemiology of substance use disorders in women; their clinical presentation, course, and psych…