Part I - Roots of Addiction in Free-market Society
1: Vancouver as prototype
2: Addiction1, Addiction2, Addiction3, Addiction4
3: The dislocation theory of addiction
4: Psychosocial integration is a necessity
5: Free-market society undermines psychosocial integration
6: Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation (1) - historical
evidence
7: Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation (2) - quantitative
research, clinical reports and 'spam'
8: Addiction is a way of adapting to dislocation (3) - the myth of
the demon drugs
Part II - The Interaction of Addiction and Society
9: Addiction and society
10: The role of addiction in the civilised madness of the 21st
century
11: Getting by
12: Spiritual treatment for addiction: the 'fifth pillar'
13: Socrates' 'Master passions' and Dikaiosune
14: From blindness and paralysis to action
15: Social actions to control addiction: question period
Bruce Alexander is a psychologist and Professor Emeritus at Simon
Fraser University, where he has worked since 1970. His primary
research interest has been the psychology of addiction. He is best
known in the UK for the "Rat Park" experiments, which helped to
demonstrate the falsity of the outworn belief that simple exposure
to narcotic drugs can cause addiction. In Canada, he has been well
known as a critic of the War on Drugs for decades. His most recent
work has
been on the causes of the current worldwide proliferation of
addiction, not only to drugs, but to a great variety of other
habits and pursuits. Exploring this topic has required that he
venture far
beyond his training in psychology, particularly into the fields of
history and anthropology.
`...a considerable work, highly ambitious in its scope, impressive
in its multidisciplinary scholarship, clear in its structure and
generous in its references...a fundamental critique of the 20th
century view of addiction.'
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