Overview
Documents the history of ideas about problem gambling
Explores religious, sociocultural, and medical influences on the disease model of problem gambling
Examines the interrelationship between changes in gambling technology, gambling availability, and the conceptualization of problem gambling
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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“The History of Problem Gambling meets its goals of reviewing the history of problem gambling while providing additional perspectives on contemporary research and gaps in our understanding of behavioral addictions. … the book provides the first complete account of the history of gambling in the context of the wider field of addiction. … The book is a recommended read for all academics and clinicians who work in the area of disordered gambling and addiction.” (David C. Hodgins and Igor Yakovenko, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (27), July, 2014)
"In this remarkable, erudite, and well written book, Peter Ferentzy and Nigel E. Turner perform -- for the first time -- a historical analysis of the idea of "problem gambling," more recently gambling addiction. . . . Modern medical models often overestimate the compulsivity and irreversibility of both substance and behavioral addictions [but] after accompanying Ferentzy and Turner on their survey, readers will realize it is impossible to comprehend the modern psychiatric classification of addictions without making this journey along with them." (Stanton Peele, Ph.D., author of 7 Tools to Beat Addiction; creator of the Life Process Program for addiction treatment)Authors and Affiliations
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Book Title: The History of Problem Gambling
Book Subtitle: Temperance, Substance Abuse, Medicine, and Metaphors
Authors: Peter Ferentzy, Nigel E. Turner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6699-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6698-7Published: 28 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9949-8Published: 16 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6699-4Published: 26 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 174
Topics: Health Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, general, Public Health