دانلود کتاب اعتیادهای رفتاری – رویکردهای مفهومی، بالینی، ارزیابی و درمان

This book represents one of my best attempts at understanding the nature of (nonsubstance) addictions. I have been interested in the study of behavioral of addiction for over a decade now, and I can confidently say that studying addictive behaviors and addiction has truly been the most fascinating and important aspect of my life as a psychologist, scientist, and educator. Often when I introduce myself to my psychology students in the first lecture of the year, I tell them that as a psychologist, I have two life questions that explain and capture really well why I do what I do in my work. For the purposes of this Preface, I will only focus on the first question: Why do we do something too much, to a point where we disregard everything else? Hopefully after reading this book, you will see that this question clearly lies at its heart as it can be seen as the main driving force behind it. Addiction as a scientific notion and social phenomenon has been extensively debated over the last decades. Initially, scientists believed that addictions would only emerge in response to the continued use of psychoactive substances. Nevertheless, this limited understanding started to radically change around the 1980s with the formal medical recognition and introduction of ‘pathological gambling’ as a psychiatric disorder in the third revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) by the American Psychiatric Association.