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Stanton Peele Theory
The Truth About Addiction and Recovery
The growth of addiction treatment in the United States, predicated on the idea that alcoholism and addictions of all kinds are diseases, is a public-relations triumph, and not a triumph of reason or…
Posted on Wed, 04/25/2007 - 03:00
Addictive personality
Stanton Peele, America's foremost critic of the addiction treatment industry, talks to Patrick Butler [The Guardian] about sex addicts, why Alcoholics Anonymous doesn't work, and why the US is obses…
Posted on Tue, 10/10/2006 - 03:00
Alcohol and pleasure: A health perspective
Introduction to Alcohol and pleasure: A health perspective
In order to understand the nature of the pleasure alcohol produces, and the role that pleasure plays in healthy and unhealthy drinking, St…
Posted on Fri, 05/19/2006 - 03:00
"Love" as an Addiction
Above all else, these extreme emotional reactions conclusively establish that the relationship was an addiction. All along, the lovers' actions toward each other were dictated by their own needs.
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Posted on Wed, 03/08/2006 - 03:00
What Addiction Is
addiction, the Opiates, and Other Drugs in America
The belief in addiction encourages a susceptibility to addiction. In Addiction and Opiates, Alfred Lindesmith states that addiction is more regula…
Posted on Wed, 03/08/2006 - 03:00
A General Theory of Addiction
I hate its weakness more than I like its pleasant futility. I hate it and myself in it all the time I'm dwelling on it. I hate it as I'd hate a little drug habit fastened on my nerves. Its influence…
Posted on Wed, 03/08/2006 - 03:00
"Love" as an Addiction
"I never saw a more promising inclination. He was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he …
Posted on Wed, 03/08/2006 - 03:00
What Addiction Is
Breuer preferred what might be called a physiological theory: he thought that the processes which could not find normal outcome were such as had originated during unusual hypnoid mental states. This…
Posted on Wed, 03/08/2006 - 03:00
A General Theory of Addiction
Criteria for addiction and Nonaddiction
Just as a person can be a compulsive or a controlled drug user, so there are addictive and nonaddictive ways of doing anything. When a person is strongly pre…
Posted on Wed, 03/08/2006 - 03:00
Theories of Addiction
Exposure Theories: Conditioning Models
Conditioning theories hold that addiction is the cumulative result of the reinforcement of drug administration. The central tenet of conditioning theories is …
Posted on Tue, 03/07/2006 - 03:00
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