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Informationen zum Autor STANTON PEELE, a leading figure in the addictions field, has won the Mark Keller award from the Rutgers Center Alcohol Studies and the Lindesmith Award from the Drug Policy Foundation. He is the author of the classic Love and Addiction and The Truth About Addiction and Recovery. Klappentext An Unconventional View of Addictive Behavior as Adaptation to the Psychological, Family, Social, and Cultural Environment "The Meaning of Addiction presented a new paradigm of addiction. The field has since become more open to the kind of complex, contextual view of addiction and compulsive behavior that it presents. Nonetheless, it remains the classic source for expressing this point of view." --Archie Brodsky, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School "Peele's theory of 'addiction as an experience' in The Meaning of Addiction remains a pathbreaking one that offers readers an accessible and empowering understanding of their own experiences, desires, and addictions. For understanding addictions, Peele is in my view (and for my courses on this subject) still the source of all sources." --Richard J. DeGrandpre, Department of Psychology, St. Michael's College, Burlington, Vermont "Stanton Peele's books have been instrumental in helping me understand my own underlying causes of addiction and how, however well-intentioned the 12-step model is, it led me to focus on the wrong aspects of addiction."--Marianne Gilliam, author, How Alcoholics Anonymous Failed Me "Offers a thought-provoking, insightful, and controversial perspective on the etiology of addictive behaviors. Peele challenges the biological model and provides an important alternative view on addictive behaviors. The Meaning of Addiction should be required reading for students and professionals alike."--Kim Fromme, Department of Psychology, University of Texas Zusammenfassung This work aims to present a controversial but persuasive analysis of alcohol and drug addiction: not as a biologically or genetically based disease! but rather an adaptation! however poor! to intrapsychic! family system! social and cultural environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Concept of Addiction: Opiate Addiction in the United States andthe Western World Divergent Evidence about Narcotic AddictionNonbiological Factors in Addiction The Nature of Addiction. The American Image of Alcohol: Does Liquor Have the Power toCorrupt and Control?: The Disease of Alcoholism Historical, Social,Ethnic, and Economic Factors in Alcoholism in the United States TheSocial Science Challenge to Disease Theory Controlled-DrinkingTherapy for Alcoholism. Theories of Addiction: Stanton Peele and Bruce K. Alexander GeneticTheories Exposure Theories: Biological Models Exposure Theories:Conditioning Models Adaptation Theories The Requirements of aSuccessful Theory of Addiction. Adult, Infant, and Animal Addiction: Bruce K. Alexander, StantonPeele, Patricia F. Hadaway, Stanley J. Morse, Archie Brodsky, andBarry L. Beyerstein. Addiction to an Experience: Elements of the Addictive ExperienceSusceptibility to Addiction and the Choice of Addictive Object:Social and Cultural Factors Susceptibility to and Choice ofAddiction: Situational Factors Susceptibiltity to and Choice ofAddiction: Individual Factors Susceptibility to and Choice ofAddiction: Developmental Factors The Nature of Addiction: TheAddiction Cycle. The Impaired Society: The Narcotic Connection--Supply and DemandThe Negative Effects of the Belief in Chemical Dependence Can WeTreat Away the Drug Problem? The Alcoholism and Chemical DependenceIndustry Spreading Diseases The Cure for Addiction....
