198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how people with addictions should be treated. The author argues that, in addition to physical and intellectual disabilities, there are volitional disabilities – disabilities of the will – and that addiction is best understood as a species of volitional disability.
This theory serves to illuminate long-standing philosophical... Read more
Introduction; 1 Why Addiction Is Not a Defect; 2 Addiction and the Will; 3 Volitional Disability; 4 Addiction as Volitional Disability; 5 Beyond Harm Reduction; 6 The Problem of Prohibition; 7 Addiction and the Demands of Justice; Conclusion
Biography
John T. Maier received his PhD in Philosophy from Princeton and his MSW from Simmons University. He is a psychotherapist in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
