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Theory of Addiction

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Wiley, Mar 6, 2006 - Medical - 211 pages
An understanding of addiction theory is vital to understanding addiction itself. Theory of Addiction takes theory development from a simple 'rational addiction model', adding elements such as compulsion, self-control and habit, to explain the 'big observations' in the field. As well as explaining and evaluating the arguments of each of the prevailing schools of thought, the book develops a new, synthetic theory of addiction that brings together the diverse elements of current models.

Designed to enable students, practitioners and researchers to establish a starting point in the labyrinthine world of addiction theory, Theory of Addiction supports abstract thinking with concrete and realistic scenarios, underlining the centrality of theoretical understanding to working with addiction.




  • Presents a digest of major existing theories in one volume
  • Develops a new synthetic theory of addiction
  • Recognises the diversity of the experience of addiction
  • Discusses factors at the level of both the individual and populations
  • Provides key recommendations for the development of effective interventions

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Theory of Addiction -- Redvers 191 (3): 273 -- The British Journal ...
Robert West's Theory of Addiction is a bold attempt to unify our understanding of human behaviour and its pathological refraction that is addiction. ...
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Theory of Addiction. By Robert West. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford ...
Theory of Addiction. By Robert West. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. 2006, 211pp., £24.99. ISBN: 1-4051-1359-6. The distinguished psychologist Robert West ...
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Addiction - Fulltext: Volume 101(7) July 2006 p 1060 THEORY OF ...
THEORY OF ADDICTION ROBERT WEST Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing, Addiction Press, 2006, 211 pp, £24.99, ISBN 10 1 4051 1359 6 ...
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Theory of addiction
Theory of addiction. Robert West. University College London. Rio de Janeiro. September 2007 .... West (2006) Theory of Addiction: Oxford: Blackwells ...
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Outline of a synthetic theory of addiction
This paper has presented the first draft of a synthetic theory of addiction that recognises that addiction can involve any or all aspects of a motivational ...
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UCL
Part of the problem is that a comprehensive theory of addiction needs to draw from a similarly broad theory of motivation (why we do things) and no such ...
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National Documentation Centre on Drug Use Drugnet Ireland Articles
In the preface to this book, the author explains the theory of addiction as ‘a theory of motivation and how the motivational system is distorted in the case ...
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SRNT Newsletter
These observations, West argues, should be the primary test of any theory of addiction, and if a theory cannot answer these questions, then it should be ...
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Psychiatry : Psychology of addiction - Published by Elsevier
21 R. West, Theory of addiction, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford (2006). 22 S. Wanigaratne and F. Keaney, Psychodynamic aspects of relapse prevention in the ...
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The disease model of addiction
Robert West (2006) Theory of Addiction. Blackwell Publishing (available at. discounted rate from the DDN ... new theory of addiction that brings together ...
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About the author (2006)

Robert West is Professor of Health Psychology at University College London. He is Editor-in-Chief of the top ranking journal Addiction, also published by Blackwell Publishing.

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TitleTheory of Addiction
Volume 1 of Addiction Press
AuthorsRobert West, Ainsley Hardy
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherWiley, 2006
ISBN1405113596, 9781405113595
Length211 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Medical / Neurology
Medical / Psychiatry / General
Psychology / Psychopathology / Addiction
Psychology / Psychopathology / Compulsive Behavior
  
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