Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Theory of addiction / Robert West with Ainsley Hardy.
  
•    
• Author/Creator:West, Robert, 1955-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Hardy, Ainsley.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub./Addiction Press, 2006.
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM270 .W445 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM270 .W445 2006
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:c.1 Lost - 07-23-2009
    

   
• Medical Subjects:Substance-Related Disorders--psychology.
  Motivation.
  Psychological Theory.
  
• Description:xii, 211 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:"Addiction Press series"--P. facing title page.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781405113595 (alk. paper)
  1405113596 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction : journey to the centre of addiction
  Definition, theory and observation
  Beginning the journey : addiction as choice
  Choice is not enough : the concepts of impulse and self-control
  Addiction, habit and instrumental learning
  Addiction in populations, and comprehensive theories
  Development of a comprehensive theory
  A synthetic theory of motivation
  A theory of addiction.