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Zusatztext "This unique collection brings together a multiplicity of potential answers to the problem of drug and behavioural malfunctioning and the wider societal setting which frame these issues. It is an extremely valuable resource for students, and its wide-ranging scope allows researchers to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and methods." - Hannah Farrimond, University of Exeter, UK "This Handbook is an exceptionally wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary collection of chapters on the general subject of addiction. The topics discussed are aptly multi-form, its contributions highly admirable, and editorial organization first-rate. It is an excellent compendium." - George Graham, author of The Disordered Mind (second edition 2013) Informationen zum Autor Hanna Pickard is Professor in Philosophy of Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK, and a Visiting Research Scholar in the Program of Cognitive Science, Princeton University 2017-19. Serge H. Ahmed is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He currently works at the Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Université de Bordeaux, France. Zusammenfassung It spans several disciplines and is the first collection of its kind. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, particularly philosophy of mind and psychology and ethics, and of great interest to those in related fields, such as medicine, mental health, social work, and social policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: What is Addiction? Section 1: Conceptions of Addiction 1. The Puzzle of Addiction 2. Deriving Addiction: An Analysis Based on Three Elementary Features of Making Choices 3. The Picoeconomics of Addiction 4. Addiction as a Disorder of Self-control 5. Addiction: The Belief Oscillation Hypothesis 6. Addiction and Moral Psychology 7. Identity and Addiction 8. The Harmful Dysfunction Analysis of Addiction: Normal Brains and Abnormal States of Mind 9. The Evolutionary Significance of Drug Toxicity over Reward Section 2: Varieties, Taxonomies, and Models of Addiction 10. Defining Addiction: A Pragmatic Perspective 11. Diagnosis of Addictions 12. Reconsidering Addiction as a Syndrome: One Disorder with Multiple Expressions 13. Developing General Models and Theories of Addiction 14. Gambling Disorder 15. Food Addiction 16. "A Walk On the Wild Side" of Addiction: The History and Significance of Animal Models Part 2: Explaining Addiction: Culture, Pathways, Mechanisms Section 1: Anthropological, Historical, and Socio-Psychological Perspectives 17. Power and Addiction 18. Sociology of Addiction 19. The Fuzzy Boundaries of Illegal Drug Markets and Why They Matter 20. Multiple Commitments: Heterogeneous Histories of Neuroscientific Addiction Research Section 2: Developmental Processes, Vulnerabilities and Resilience 21. The Epidemiological Approach: An Overview of Methods and Models 22. A Genetic Framework For Addiction 23. Choice Impulsivity: A Drug-modifiable Personality Trait 24. Stress and Addiction Section 3: Psychological and Neural Mechanisms 25. Mechanistic Models for Understanding Addiction as a Behavioral Disorder 26. Controlled and Automatic Learning Processes in Addiction 27. Decision-making Dysfunctions in Addiction 28. The Current Status of the Incentive Sensitization Theory of Addiction 29. Resting-state and Structural Brain Connectivity in Individuals with Stimulant Addiction: A Systematic Review 30. Imaging Dopamine Signaling in Addiction 31. The Neurobiology of the Placebo Effects of Addictive Drugs 32. Brain Mechanisms and the Disease Model of Addiction: Is it the Whole Story of the Addicted Self? A Philosophical-skeptical Perspective Part 3: Consequences, Responses, and the Meaning of Addiction Section 1: Listening and Relating to Addicts 33. T...
