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• Title:The Dostoevsky effect : problem gambling and the origins of addiction / Lorne Tepperman [and others].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Tepperman, Lorne.
  
• Published/Created:Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2013.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM190.5.I6 .D724 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Psychology.
  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Igrok. English.
  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Influence.
  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.
  Compulsive gambling.
  Compulsive gambling--Social aspects.
  Compulsive gamblers--Psychology.
  Compulsive gamblers--Interviews.
  Compulsive gamblers--Biography.
  Gambling in literature.
  Psychology in literature.
  
• Medical Subjects: Gambling.
  Behavior, Addictive--history.
  Literature, Modern.
  Medicine in Literature.
  
• Genre/Form:Interviews.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:vi, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:A team of University of Toronto sociologists examined Fyodor Dostoyevsky's life to determine the origins of his gambling addiction and draw interesting parallels with the experience of modern day gamblers that they interviewed and took bibliographical accounts from in their study of Toronto area residents.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-349) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195449129
  0195449126
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Gambling in the Life of Dostoevsky
  1. Introduction to Dostoevsky's Life
  2. Gambling in Nineteenth-Century Russia
  3. What Do Dostoevsky's Novels Tell Us?
  4. Explanations of Dostoevsky's Gambling
  pt. II Dostoevsky Process-Today
  5. Childhood Distress
  6. Adult Stresses
  7. Maladaptive Coping
  8. How Gambling Makes Life Worse
  pt. III Non-Dostoevskian Processes
  9. Opportunity and Acceptability
  10. Learning at Home and in the Community
  11. How Do Non-problem Gambling Families Compare?
  pt. IV Conclusions and Implications
  12. Gambler, Then and Now
  13. Lessons from and for Dostoevsky
  14. Implications of This Research for Gambling Policy and Childrearing.