Introduction to Addiction Psychiatry
$102.85
- Paperback
265 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2025
Summary
Understanding Addiction: A Translational Approach to Psychiatry
This essential, concept-oriented book provides a highly integrative and translational approach to addiction, offering a deep understanding of the condition and its close biological-causal-developmental linkage with mental illness.
The book explains addiction around five fundamental components that define disease:
- Population Impact
- Symptom Sets
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781009501392 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1009501399 |
| Author: | R. Andrew Chambers, Kevin G. Masterson |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 265 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
About The Author
R. Andrew Chambers
R. Andrew Chambers is an Addiction Psychiatrist and Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Since graduating from Duke Medical School and Yale Psychiatry programs, he has conducted pioneering work in understanding the developmental neurocircuitry interlinking addiction and mental illness and translating this science to professional training and clinical practice.
Dr Masterson is dual board-certified in General and Addiction Psychiatry from Indiana University and works as Associate Medical Director of Addiction Services at Linden Oaks Hospital in Naperville, Illinois. He is interested in how our hijacked motivations cause physical and mental illness via substance use, social media, improper nutrition, etc.
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