Description
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This volume critically interrogates the dominant understanding of addiction and addicts . It examines the proliferation of the addiction concept by psychiatry and other psy-professions, exploring the processes and underlying drivers of this form of medicalisation. Through discussions from leading scholars in the field on gambling, smoking, opioids, and drug use, as well as the passionate engagement with social media, sport, sex, pornography, opioids, and psychedelics, the collection argues that addiction is better understood as a sociological rather than psychiatric phenomenon. It contends that the discourse of addiction is fundamentally political in nature, rather than purely medical. In doing so, this timely collection fills a significant gap in academic knowledge. It will be of strong interest to scholars and students of mental health and addiction, as well as to critical practitioners working in these areas.
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Foreword Peter J. Adams.- 1: Introduction: Pathologising pleasure? Bruce M. Z. Cohen, Martin Harbusch & Jo Reichertz.- PART 1: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES.- 2: The ecological niche of behavioural addictions Baptiste Brossard, Emmanuelle Larocque, Nicolas Moreau, Dahlia Namian & Mélissa Roy.- 3: The triangle of medicalisation: Pathways for interactive negotiation of diseases, disorders and addictions Martin Harbusch.- 4: The communicative construction of addiction Jo Reichertz.- 5: A Marxist theory of addiction Bruce M. Z. Cohen.- PART 2: NEGOTIATING ADDICTION .- 6: The social construction of good and bad addicts: How relabelling addiction shaped the opioid epidemic Thaddeus Müller.- 7: Excessive appetites and disarming innovations: The shifting socio-materialities of nicotine and gambling addiction Mark Elam.- 8: Addiction and agency at the threshold of infinite pornographic access Kris Taylor.- PART 3: CONSPICUOUS BEHAVIOURS AS ADDICTIONS .- 9: Wellness, addiction and temperance Richard Hammersley.- 10: Using sports: Constructing extremity as addiction Lars Arntsen & Nancy D. Campbell.- 11: From medicalisation to cultural embrace: Drug foundationalism versus techné in the psychedelic revival Tehseen Noorani.- PART 4: MEDIA, POLITICAL AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE.- 12: Addiction discoveries: Hyping and spinning the superiority of neuroscience Matilda Hellman.- 13: Social media, dark patterns and contemporary discourses of addiction Cherie Lacey, Ian Goodwin & Antonia Lyons.- 14: The instrumentalization of the concept of gambling addiction : A discourse analysis of German parliamentary debates Gerd Möll.- 15: Aesthetic pathologisation: Cinema, psychiatry and sex addiction Baptiste Brossard & Benjamin Hemmings.
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Bruce M. Z. Cohen is an Associate Professor in sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Martin Harbusch is Professor for research methods at the University of Siegen, Germany.
Jo Reichertz is Emeritus Professor of sociology and communication science at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
