Readership: Trainee and practising psychologists and psychiatrists with an interest in addictions, addiction counsellors, social workers, health promotion officers.
Nick Heather, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Studies, Newcastle City Health NHS Trust, and Ian Robertson, Neuropsychologist, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, University of Cambridge
"'The book provides a sustained argument informed by scientific advances and as such it succeeds admirably...The book is extremely clear and interesting and should be recommended to inform the current generation of clinicians and students as it has done in the past." - Dr Bruce Ritson, Jnl of Mental Health (1998) 7, 5, 535-538.
Preface to 3rd edition Introduction Part 1 - Problem drinking is not a disease The historical concept How many disease concepts of alcoholism are there? The evidence Pros and cons of the disease perspective Part 2 - Problem drinking: a social psychological paradigm Setting the scene Conditioning Cognition Some practical implications
