~ An Exploration of What We Do ~
~ An Exploration of What We Do ~
Here we have a collection of other people's thoughts on the matter, in the form of quotes, papers, and more. Use the links below this paragraph to jump to the different sections of the page. Then use the flashing 'Top' icon to jump back here.
Some Papers on the subject:
THE USEFULNESS OF GENERAL THEORIES OF ADDICTION - The main aim of the paper is to discuss whether or nor behaviours which do not involve taking drugs (i.e. gambling, running, eating, sex) can be properly called addictive.
SELF EFFICACY AND HEALTH BEHAVIOURS - This paper discusses the impact of self-efficacy on addictive behaviours and other health matters.
William Wordsworth |
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. |
Carl Jung |
Every Form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. |
W. H. Auden |
All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called "damnation". |
William Burroughs |
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts ... The question "Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?", should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area. |
Jean Cocteau |
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. |
Aldous Huxley |
(That which) converts luxurious enjoyment into dull and daily necessities. |
Samuel Johnson |
(Chains that are) too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. |
George Eliot |
(Habit is) that beneficent harness of routine, which enables silly men to live respectably and happy men to live calmly. |