Theory of addiction
By: Robert West, with Ainsley Hardy.
Contributors: Hardy, Ainsley.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405113595
Subjects: Substance abuse.; Compulsive behavior.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: journey to the centre of addiction; title: In the beginning; title: In the end; title: What this book does; title: The synthetic theory of addiction in brief; title: Definition, theory and observation; title: Defining addiction (addiction is not an elephant); title: Views on what is addiction; title: Diagnosing and measuring addiction; title: Theory and supposition; title: 'Big questions' in the field of addiction; title: Recapitulation; title: Beginning the journey : addiction as choice; title: Addiction as rational, informed choice based on stable preferences; title: Box 3.1 the myth of addiction; title: Box 3.2 the theory of rational addiction; title: Box 3.3 the self-medication model of addiction; title: Box 3.4 opponent process theory; title: Irrational, ill-informed choice and unstable preferences; title: Rational ill-informed choice with unstable preferences : an addict's eye view; title: Box 3.5 expectancy theories; title: Box 3.6 Skog's choice theory; title: Box 3.7 Slovic's 'affect heuristic'; title: Box 3.8 cognitive bias theories; title: Box 3.9 behavioural economic theories; title: Box 3.10 gateway theory; title: Box 3.11 the transtheoretical model (TTM) of behaviour change; title: Box 3.12 identity shifts and behaviour change; title: Addiction as the exercise of choice based on desires; title: Choice is not enough : the concepts of impulse and self-; title: Control; title: Reports of feelings of compulsion; title: Powerful motives versus impaired control; title: Box 4.1 the disease model of addiction; title: Personality and addiction typologies; title: Box 4.2 tridimensional personality theory; title: Self-efficacy; title: Box 4.3 self-efficacy theory; title: The transition from lapse to relapse; title: Box 4.4 the abstinence violation effect; title: Impulse control; title: Box 4.5 inhibition dysregulation theory; title: Self-regulation as a broadly based concept; title: Box 4.6 self-regulation theory; title: Urges and craving; title: Box 4.7 a cognitive model of drug urges; title: Addiction as a failure of self-control over desires and urges; title: Addiction, habit and instrumental learning; title: Box 5.1 instrumental learning (operant conditioning) and addiction; title: Mechanisms underpinning instrumental learning; title: Box 5.2 the dopamine theory of drug reward; title: Box 5.3 addiction arising from functional neurotoxicity of drugs; title: Classical conditioning; title: Box 5.4 classical conditioning and addiction; title: More complex learning models; title: Box 5.5 addiction as a learning/memory process; title: Box 5.7 incentive sensitisation theory; title: Box 5.8 Balfour's theory of differential drug effects within the nucleus accumbens social learning; title: Box 5.9 social learning theory; title: Associative learning; title: Addiction in populations and comprehensive theories; title: Addiction in populations; title: Box 6.1 diffusion theory; title: Comprehensive theories of addiction; title: Box 6.2 excessive appetites; title: Box 6.3 the pathways model of pathological gambling; title: What is addiction and how can we explain it?; title: Development of a comprehensive theory; title: A reminder of what we are talking about; title: Addiction as rational choice; title: Addiction as irrational choice; title: Addiction, compulsion and self-control; title: Addiction, instrumental learning and habit; title: Addiction, choice, compulsion and habit; title: A synthetic theory of motivation; title: The human motivational system; title: The five levels of motivation; title: Momentum and inertia; title: Ways in which past experience affects motivation; title: The 'representational system' and consciousness; title: Self and self-control; title: Mental effort and motivational resources; title: What motivates us; title: The unstable mind; title: A theory of addiction; title: Addiction is; title: The pathologies underlying addiction; title: Recommendations and predictions regarding addiction interventions; title: Testing the theory.