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Getting Out of Your Head: Addiction and the Motive of Self‐Escape
Author(s) -
Morgan Daniel,
O'Brien Lucy
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/mila.12108
Subject(s) - addiction , nothing , psychology , addictive behavior , social psychology , epistemology , philosophy , neuroscience
This article explores and defends the claim that addictive desires—for alcohol in particular—are partly explained by the motive of self‐escape. We consider how this claim sits with the neurophysiological explanation of the strength of addictive desires in terms of the effect addictive substances have on the dopamine system. We argue that nothing in the neuroscientific framework rules out pluralism about the causes of addictive desire.