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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Peele, Stanton. Meaning of addiction. San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998 (OCoLC)607183420 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stanton Peele |
| ISBN: | 0787943827 9780787943820 |
| OCLC Number: | 38966129 |
| Notes: | Previously published: Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, 1985. |
| Description: | xiv, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Part 1 The concept of addiction -- Opiate addiction in the United States and the western world -- Divergent evidence about narcotic addiction -- Nonbiological factors in addiction -- The nature of addiction -- Part 2 The American image of alcohol : does liquor have the power to corrupt or control -- The disease of alcoholism -- Historical, social, ethnic, and economic factors in alcoholism in the United States -- The social science challenge to the disease theory -- Controlled-drinking therapy for alcoholism -- Part 3 Theories of addiction / Stanton Peele and Bruce K. Alexander -- Genetic theories -- Exposure theories : biological models -- Exposure theories : conditioning models -- Adaptation theories -- The requirements of a successful theory of addiction. Part 4 Adult, infant, and animal addiction / Bruce K. Alexander [and others] -- The effect on the infant of mother's drug use -- The addicted animal -- Animal narcotics use in rat park -- What causes anumals to accept narcosis -- The implication of infant and animal research for conceptions of addiction -- Part 5 Addiction to an experience -- Elements of the addictive experience -- Susceptibility to addiction and the choice of addictive object : social and cultural factors -- Susceptibility to and choice of addiction : situational factors -- Susceptibility to and choice of addiction : individual factors -- Susceptibility to and choice of addiction : developmental factors -- The nature of addiction : the addiction cycle -- Part 6 The impaired society -- The narcotic connection -- supply and demand -- The negative effects of the belief in chemical dependence -- Can we treat away the drug problem -- The alcoholism and chemical dependence industry -- Spreading diseases -- The cure for addiction. |
| Responsibility: | Stanton Peele. |
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"A tour de force, a spectacular effort of research andunderstanding. This book gives us the courage to bypass diseasenotions to deal with intrapsychic, family system, and social andcultural dynamics in addiction." (David Cook, Counseling andPsychological Services, University of Wisconsin) "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 itpresents. Nonetheless, it remains the classic source for expressingthis point of view." (Archie Brodsky, Department of Psychiatry,Harvard Medical School) "Peele's theory of 'addiction as an experience' in The Meaning ofAddiction remains a pathbreaking one that offers readers anaccessible and empowering understanding of their own experiences,desires, and addictions. For understanding addictions, Peele is inmy view (and for my courses on this subject) still the source ofall sources." (Richard J. DeGrandpre, Department of Psychology, St.Michael's College, Burlington, Vermon) "Stanton Peele's books have been instrumental in helping meunderstand my own underlying causes of addiction and how, howeverwell-intentioned the 12-step model is, it led me to focus on thewrong aspects of addiction." (Marianne Gilliam, author, HowAlcoholics Anonymous Failed Me) "Offers a thought-provoking, insightful, and controversialperspective on the etiology of addictive behaviors. Peelechallenges the biological model and provides an importantalternative view on addictive behaviors. The Meaning of Addictionshould be required reading for students and professionals alike."(Kim Fromme, Department of Psychology, University of Texas) "Given the extraordinary, but largely unsubstantiated, confidencethat many in both the public an professional ranks have insimplistic conceptualizations of addictive behavior, it isreassuring that sophisticated and provocative alternatives such asthose proposed by Stanton Peele in The Meaning of Addiction surfacefrom time to time. It offers hope for constructive change byputting reason an choice back into the addiction formula." (Alan R.Lang, Department of Psychology, Florida State University) "This is a book to be read slowly, to be taken seriously, and to bedebated hotly by every professional in the field. This wholesubject is one of the major medical political and society problemsof our civilization, and we seem unable to find any workablesolution." (John A. Owen, Jr., M.D., Professor of InternalMedicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine) Read more...
