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Addiction and Responsibility

Addiction and Responsibility

by George Graham and Jeffrey Poland
Hardback
Publication Date: 13/05/2011

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The intertwining of addiction and responsibility in personal, philosophical, legal, research, and clinical contexts.Addictive behavior threatens not just the addict's happiness and health but also the welfare and well-being of others. It represents a loss of self-control and a variety of other cognitive impairments and behavioral deficits. An addict may say, "I couldn't help myself." But questions arise- are we responsible for our addictions? And what responsibilities do others have to help us? This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together. Distinguished contributors-from theorists to clinicians, from neuroscientists and psychologists to philosophers and legal scholars-discuss these questions in essays using a variety of conceptual and investigative tools.
Some contributors offer models of addiction-related phenomena, including theories of incentive sensitization, ego-depletion, and pathological affect; others address such traditional philosophical questions as free will and agency, mind-body, and other minds. Two essays, written by scholars who were themselves addicts, attempt to integrate first-person phenomenological accounts with the third-person perspective of the sciences. Contributors distinguish among moral responsibility, legal responsibility, and the ethical responsibility of clinicians and researchers. Taken together, the essays offer a forceful argument that we cannot fully understand addiction if we do not also understand responsibility.
ISBN:
9780262015509
9780262015509
Category:
Addiction & therapy
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
13-05-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
MIT Press Ltd
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x19mm
Weight:
0.59kg

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