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What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?

A Philosophy of Addiction

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A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addictionWhy do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine—to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction. For too long, ... Read more

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A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addictionWhy do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine—to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction. For too long,
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A Philosophy of Addiction

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A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addictionWhy do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine—to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction.Drawing on her ... Read more

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A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addictionWhy do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine—to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction.Drawing on her
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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction

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The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society. It also poses important and complex philosophical and scientific problems. What is addiction? Why does it occur? And how should we respond to it, as individuals and as a society?The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction is an outstanding reference source to the key topics ... Read more

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The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society. It also poses important and complex philosophical and scientific problems. What is addiction? Why does it occur? And how should we respond to it, as individuals and as a society?The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction is an outstanding reference source to the key topics
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Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons

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At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more effective, less harmful, and much more able to address the real needs of recovery, growth, and development for affected persons. Psychosocial ... Read more

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At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more effective, less harmful, and much more able to address the real needs of recovery, growth, and development for affected persons. Psychosocial
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Facts and Fictions in Mental Health

by Hal Arkowitz, Scott O. Lilienfeld ...

Written in a lively and entertaining style*, Facts and Fictions in Mental Health* examines common conceptions and misconceptions surrounding mental health and its treatment. Each chapter focuses on a misconception and is followed by a discussion of related findings from scientific research.A compilation of the authors' "Facts and Fictions" columns written for Scientific American Mind, with the ... Read more

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Written in a lively and entertaining style*, Facts and Fictions in Mental Health* examines common conceptions and misconceptions surrounding mental health and its treatment. Each chapter focuses on a misconception and is followed by a discussion of related findings from scientific research.A compilation of the authors' "Facts and Fictions" columns written for Scientific American Mind, with the
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Fundamentals of Addiction

A Practical Guide for Counsellors

Edited by Marilyn Herie, PhD, RSW, W.J. Wayne Skinner, MSW, RSW ...

Fundamentals of Addiction is an essential reference for counsellors and a comprehensive textbook for college and university level students in courses that address addictions. Written by more than 50 experts in addiction treatment and related fields, each chapter includes case examples, practice tips and print and online resources.This fourth edition of Alcohol & Drug Problems was renamed ... Read more

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Fundamentals of Addiction is an essential reference for counsellors and a comprehensive textbook for college and university level students in courses that address addictions. Written by more than 50 experts in addiction treatment and related fields, each chapter includes case examples, practice tips and print and online resources.This fourth edition of Alcohol & Drug Problems was renamed
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Viral Mental Health Myths & the Truths to Set You Free

by Joe Nucci, LPC ...

Half of Americans believe mental health conditions aren’t diagnosed often enough, according to a 2026 GWI survey. Yet nearly half are uneasy about people diagnosing themselves based on what they see on social media. Between TikTok life coaches and Instagram “narcissist” call-outs, therapy-speak has become a second language, and the messiness of being human has started to look like a disorder.In ... Read more

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Half of Americans believe mental health conditions aren’t diagnosed often enough, according to a 2026 GWI survey. Yet nearly half are uneasy about people diagnosing themselves based on what they see on social media. Between TikTok life coaches and Instagram “narcissist” call-outs, therapy-speak has become a second language, and the messiness of being human has started to look like a disorder.In
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Doctoring the Mind

Why psychiatric treatments fail

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Towards the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the 'Prozac Age' and believed we had moved on definitively from the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry ... Read more

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Towards the end of the twentieth century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions, focusing on mental illness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or improved through drugs. We entered the 'Prozac Age' and believed we had moved on definitively from the time of frontal lobotomies to an age of good and successful mental healthcare. Biological psychiatry
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Crack Cocaine

A Practical Treatment Approach For The Chemically Dependent

by Barbara C. Wallace ...

Using first-hand experience, the author presents a practical treatment approach, originally designed for crack patients, but generally applicable to chemical dependency problems. It also explains the social, biological and psychological factors in crack addiction and various barriers to treatment. ... Read more

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Using first-hand experience, the author presents a practical treatment approach, originally designed for crack patients, but generally applicable to chemical dependency problems. It also explains the social, biological and psychological factors in crack addiction and various barriers to treatment.
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The Book of Ethics

Expert Guidance For Professionals Who Treat Addiction

by Laura Weiss Roberts ...

The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.The treatment of addiction as a biological, psychological, social, and spiritual disease requires a high standard of ethical knowledge and professional skill. This groundbreaking, reader-friendly guide to contemporary ethical issues informs and challenges health care professionals, students, and faculty with a thorough ... Read more

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The definitive book on ethics for chemical dependency treatment professionals.The treatment of addiction as a biological, psychological, social, and spiritual disease requires a high standard of ethical knowledge and professional skill. This groundbreaking, reader-friendly guide to contemporary ethical issues informs and challenges health care professionals, students, and faculty with a thorough
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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology

Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior

by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio, Barry L. Beyerstein ...

Series series Great Myths of Psychology
50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience.Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychologyExplores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as 'opposites attract', 'people use only 10% of their brains', ... Read more

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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience.Uses common myths as a vehicle for exploring how to distinguish factual from fictional claims in popular psychologyExplores topics that readers will relate to, but often misunderstand, such as 'opposites attract', 'people use only 10% of their brains',
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Brainwashed

The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience

by Sally Satel, Scott O. Lilienfeld ...

This provocative account of our obsession with neuroscience brilliantly illuminates what contemporary neuroscience and brain imaging can and cannot tell us about ourselves, providing a much-needed reminder about the many factors that make us who we are.What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI -- functional magnetic resonance imaging -- was introduced in the early 1990s, brain ... Read more

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This provocative account of our obsession with neuroscience brilliantly illuminates what contemporary neuroscience and brain imaging can and cannot tell us about ourselves, providing a much-needed reminder about the many factors that make us who we are.What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI -- functional magnetic resonance imaging -- was introduced in the early 1990s, brain
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