The Ghost in the Addict
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2024
Summary
How withdrawal distress and cravings can haunt current and former addicts, and what they can teach us about addiction and its treatments.
“The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house,” Jean Cocteau once wrote. In The Ghost in the Addict, Shepard Siegel offers a Pavlovian analysis of drug use. Chronic drug use, he explains, conditions users to have an anticipatory homeostatic correction, which protects the addict from overdose. Th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547970 |
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| ISBN-10: | 026254797X |
| Author: | Shepard Siegel |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 203mm |
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Shepard Siegel
Shepard Siegel is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behavior at McMaster University. He has been a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Royal Society of Canada. From 2003 to 2008 he was Editor of Learning & Behavior.
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