Addiction and the Medicalisation of Conspicuous Behaviour
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-06312-0 (ISBN)
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This volume critically interrogates the dominant understanding of addiction and addicts . It examines the proliferation of the addiction concept by psychiatry and other psy-professions, exploring the processes and underlying drivers of this form of medicalisation. Through discussions from leading scholars in the field on gambling, smoking, opioids, and drug use, as well as the passionate engagement with social media, sport, sex, pornography, opioids, and psychedelics, the collection argues that addiction is better understood as a sociological rather than psychiatric phenomenon. It contends that the discourse of addiction is fundamentally political in nature, rather than purely medical. In doing so, this timely collection fills a significant gap in academic knowledge. It will be of strong interest to scholars and students of mental health and addiction, as well as to critical practitioners working in these areas.
Bruce M. Z. Cohen is an Associate Professor specialising in the sociology of mental health at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of Mental Health User Narratives (2008) and Psychiatric Hegemony (2016).
Martin Harbusch is Professor for research methods at the University of Siegen, Germany. His previous books include Troubled Persons Industries (2022).
Jo Reichertz is Emeritus Professor of sociology and communication science at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His published work includes the volumes Grenzen der Kommunikation Kommunikation an den Grenzen [Boundaries of communication Communication at the boundaries] (2020) and Braucht die Mediatisierungsforschung den Kommunikativen Konstruktivismus? [Does mediatisation research need communicative constructionism?] (2018).
Foreword Peter J. Adams.- 1: Introduction: Pathologising pleasure? Bruce M. Z. Cohen, Martin Harbusch & Jo Reichertz.- PART 1: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES.- 2: The ecological niche of behavioural addictions Baptiste Brossard, Emmanuelle Larocque, Nicolas Moreau, Dahlia Namian & Mélissa Roy.- 3: The triangle of medicalisation: Pathways for interactive negotiation of diseases, disorders and addictions Martin Harbusch.- 4: The communicative construction of addiction Jo Reichertz.- 5: A Marxist theory of addiction Bruce M. Z. Cohen.- PART 2: NEGOTIATING ADDICTION .- 6: The social construction of good and bad addicts: How relabelling addiction shaped the opioid epidemic Thaddeus Müller.- 7: Excessive appetites and disarming innovations: The shifting socio-materialities of nicotine and gambling addiction Mark Elam.- 8: Addiction and agency at the threshold of infinite pornographic access Kris Taylor.- PART 3: CONSPICUOUS BEHAVIOURS AS ADDICTIONS .- 9: Wellness, addiction and temperance Richard Hammersley.- 10: Using sports: Constructing extremity as addiction Lars Arntsen & Nancy D. Campbell.- 11: From medicalisation to cultural embrace: Drug foundationalism versus techné in the psychedelic revival Tehseen Noorani.- PART 4: MEDIA, POLITICAL AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE.- 12: Addiction discoveries: Hyping and spinning the superiority of neuroscience Matilda Hellman.- 13: Social media, dark patterns and contemporary discourses of addiction Cherie Lacey, Ian Goodwin & Antonia Lyons.- 14: The instrumentalization of the concept of gambling addiction : A discourse analysis of German parliamentary debates Gerd Möll.- 15: Aesthetic pathologisation: Cinema, psychiatry and sex addiction Baptiste Brossard & Benjamin Hemmings.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.11.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | The Politics of Mental Health and Illness |
| Vorwort | Peter J. Adams |
| Zusatzinfo | LVIII, 356 p. 3 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | addiction • behavioural addictions • Communicative constructivism • Critical addiction studies • DSM and psychiatric diagnosis • Edgework • gambling disorder • Marxist theory of addiction • Medicalisation • Neoliberalism and addiction • pornography addiction • Psychedelic therapy • Risk society • Science and Technology Studies • Social constructionism • social deviance • sociology of consumption • sociology of mental health • Technological mediation • wellness industry |
| ISBN-10 | 3-032-06312-4 / 3032063124 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-032-06312-0 / 9783032063120 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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