Academic Press, 2002. — 340 p. Over the past decade, legal wagering has expanded rapidly in North America. In 1998 alone, people lost 50 billion dollars in legal betting and it is estimated that illegal wagering is twice that amount. A recent government report, based on the broadest population survey, concludes that the lifetime and pathological gamblers in the U.S. range...
Springer, 2019. — 171 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-10441-2. This book discusses the psychological traits associated with drug consumption through the statistical analysis of a new database with information on 1885 respondents and use of 18 drugs. After reviewing published works on the psychological profiles of drug users and describing the data mining and machine learning methods used,...
New York: Routledge, 2021. — 130 p. This essential book questions the psychological construct of Internet Addiction by contextualizing it within the digital technological era. It proposes critical psychology that investigates user subjectivity as a function of capitalism and imperialism, arguing against punitive models of digital excesses and critiquing the political economy of...
Springer, 2019. — 318 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-03058-2 This book provides an overview of the state of the art in research on and treatment of gambling disorder. As a behavioral addiction, gambling disorder is of increasing relevance to the field of mental health. Research conducted in the last decade has yielded valuable new insights into the characteristics and etiology of...
Springer, 2019. — 1014 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-03060-5 This book provides an overview of the state of the art in research on and treatment of gambling disorder. As a behavioral addiction, gambling disorder is of increasing relevance to the field of mental health. Research conducted in the last decade has yielded valuable new insights into the characteristics and etiology of...
EBooks & eLearning edition. 2017. 257 p. A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so tenacious and how we can learn to conquer them. We are all vulnerable to addiction. Whether it's a compulsion to constantly check social media, binge eating, smoking, excessive drinking, or any other behaviors, we may find ourselves...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 128 p. As gambling becomes more prevalent and more accessible in our society, pathological gambling is growing as a serious problem. In most instances, excessive gambling negatively affects a persons home, social, and professional life, as well as leads to serious financial trouble. In repeated trials, cognitive-behavioral therapy has proven an...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 128 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-19-531702-2. As gambling becomes more prevalent and more accessible in our society, pathological gambling is growing as a serious problem. In most instances, excessive gambling negatively affects a persons home, social, and professional life, as well as leads to serious financial trouble. In repeated trials,...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 83 p. If you feel as if you can no longer control your gambling, if your gambling has interfered with your family, social, or working life, this workbook can help you take back control.Though gambling has become increasingly prevalent in society, pathological gambling is a serious condition. Pathological gamblers find they are unable to...
New York: Viking, 2011. — 242 p. A leading brain scientist's look at the neurobiology of pleasure--and how pleasures can become addictions. Whether eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex, or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. Here, Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental...
Trumpeter, 2008. — ISBN10: 1590305442; ISBN13: 978-1590305447. For writers, artists, musicians, and creators in every field, this book offers a complete addiction recovery program specifically designed for the creative person. Full of explanations and exercises, this book presents ways to use your own innate creative abilities in service of your recovery and at each stage of...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 664 p. — ISBN: 978-0195114898 Today, alcohol and other drug abuse scientists have access to a broad array of clinical resources that integrate a commonsensical approach to addiction treatment with science. Addictions: A Comprehensive Guidebook is a superb example of one such resource. Here, in one volume, is both practical and scholarly...
Springer, 2015. — 242 p. This book combines a scholarly introduction with state-of-the-art research in the characterization of Internet addiction. It is intended for a broad audience including scientists, students and practitioners. The first part of the book contains an introduction to Internet addiction and their pathogenesis. The second part of the book is dedicated to an...
I.B.Tauris, 2013. — 204 p. — ISBN: 1848858523. — ISBN13: 978-1848858527 What does it mean to be naked in public? Approaching this question from across the disciplines, this book examines the evolution of female exhibitionism from criminal taboo to prime-time entertainment. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which brings together all fields of popular culture, including...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 456 p. An anthropologist looks at the new "crack cocaine" of high-tech gambling. Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated...
The Great Courses, 2015. — 117 p. — ISBN: 978-1629971162 Addiction is a problem that affects everyone - even if we haven't experienced addiction ourselves, we all know someone who has. Unfortunately many sources of information about addiction seem inaccessible or irrelevant because they present vague or false science, they present accurate science in an excessively complicated...
Capstone, 2019. — 147 p. — ISBN10: 0857087932, 13 978-0857087935. Authors Imran Rashid and Soren Kenner have sparked an international debate by revealing the "mind hacks" Facebook, Apple, Google, and Instagram use to get you and your children hooked on their products. In Offline, they deliver an eye-opening research-based journey into the world of tech giants, smartphones,...
(A guide for workaholics, their children and partners, and their therapists.) - 2nd edition. — New York University Press. 2007. - 290 p. Editorial Reviews. Being a workaholic doesn't just mean being a hard worker, says Robinson, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of North Carolina who has been studying people's work habits for years. It means you've got a...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 456 p. An anthropologist looks at the new "crack cocaine" of high-tech gambling. Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated...
Commonwealth Publishing, 2015. — 183 p. Revised and updated in September 2018. When high speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control. Far from preparing them for fulfilling relationships, viewing an endless stream of porn videos led to unexpected symptoms. Perhaps most...
Publication details not specified. Książka ukazuje problem w jaki sposób rodziny alkoholików mogą same sobie pomóc w zdrowieniu. W rozważaniach autorka omawia typową rodzinę amerykańską, jednak wiele ogólnych twierdzeń tu przytaczanych będzie prawdziwych także w odniesieniu do innych szczególnych sytuacji rodzinnych.Autorka mówi; 'Mam odwagę powiedzieć ci, że możesz nauczyć się...
Springer Publishing Company, 2017. — 317 p. — ISBN: 9780826133724. This is the first book to thoroughly examine how early and easy access to the Internet and digital technologies impacts children and adolescents. Experts in the field examine the research that shows the social, cognitive, developmental, and academic problems that can result when children spend excessive time in...
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