The Addiction Philosophy Map
January 2017
Montague, P. R., P. Dayan, and T. J. Sejnowski. 1996. “A framework for mesencephalic dopamine systems based on predictive Hebbian learning.” The Journal of neuroscience 16 (5): 1936–47.
How long may such hopscotch last in a book is an open question. Moreover, going ahead I’d tell the relation of a human with the alcohol addiction is always really unique. So, the situation when alcohol is an equal or nearly equal part of a human’s life to every other parts thereof may last long enough. On the other hand, an accurate description of a person’s degradation, decline of social life shall be looked for in clinical psychology and psychiatry, not philosophy, literature or culture. However, as we leave the literature aside we also change our approach. An academic discourse means a problematic approach first of all. The science deals with a problem solution rather than the text esthetics, though the latter is important too. Therefore to get the scholars’ and practicians’ attention the alcohol addiction shall become a problem, something a patient wants to get rid of, but only with some help from the outside.
Rumination is defined as ‘a mode of responding to distress that involves repetitively and passively focusing on symptoms of distress and on the possible causes and consequences of these symptoms’ (Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008). This tendency characterizes depression (Nolen-Hoeksema et al., 2008), and has been ascribed to deficient control processes that cannot rid memory of negative information (Joormann, 2005). As such, a growing literature has examined the relationship between depressive rumination and cognitive control during demanding cognitive tasks. However, it is likely that the most prominent display of rumination is not when people are engaged in a task, but when they are at rest.
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