Book Title: What's Wrong with Addiction?
Description: This is an impressive work: carefully structured, researched and written . . . a refreshingly lucid account that is both intellectually stimulating and professionally helpful.-Janet McCalman Addicts are generally regarded with either pity or grave disapproval. But is being addicted to something necessarily bad? These attitudes are explicit both in contemporary medical literature and in popular, self-help texts. We categorise addiction as unnatural, diseased and self-destructive. We demonise pleasure and desire, and view the addict as physically and morally damaged. Helen Keane's thought-provoking text examines these assumptions in a new light. In asserting that the 'wrongness' of addiction is not fixed or indeed obvious, she presents a refreshing challenge to more conventional accounts of ...
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Author(s): Helen Keane
Publisher(s): Melbourne University Publish
Publish Date: 2002
Book Pages: 228
Industry Identifier: ISBN_10: 0522849911
Cover: External Link
Subjects: Psychology / Psychopathology / Addiction
Book Dimentions
Height: 23.00 cm
Width: 16.10 cm
Thickness: 1.80 cm
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