Addictive personalities and why people take drugs : the spike and the moon / / by Gary Winship

• Autore: Winship Gary
• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (149 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.86
• Soggetto topico: Compulsive behavior - Psychological aspects; Drug abuse - Psychological aspects; Compulsive behavior - Patients; Dependency (Psychology)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Fixing the pill mentality; CHAPTER TWO Creation myths and breast junkies: in search of milk and honey; CHAPTER THREE "Dracula": from Stoker's classic of compulsion to Arthur's dark room; CHAPTER FOUR The Prometheus Syndrome: addiction, death, and the liver in mind; CHAPTER FIVE The pleasure paradox: nirvana and death dependency; CHAPTER SIX Major Tom, Lucy, Bion, and the psychotic vacuum; REFERENCES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Why do we take drugs? I haven't the faintest idea, but Gary Winship has a damned good go at telling me the answer. Some might say this is a largely academic book, but as an ex-psychiatric nurse and a Jo Public for the last twenty-five years, I'd say there's something in here for everyone. We've all taken drugs at some point in our lives (except, perhaps, my grandma) so one way to find out why is by reading this fascinating book.'- Jo Brand, comic, author, and actress.
• Titolo autorizzato: Addictive personalities and why people take drugs
• ISBN: 0-429-91058-4; 0-429-89635-2; 0-429-47158-0; 1-283-34154-9; 9786613341549; 1-84940-945-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781432503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: UKCP