TY - JOUR
AU - BÜHRINGER, GERHARD
AB -  HANDBOOK OF IMPLICIT COGNITION AND ADDICTION REINOUT W. WIERS & ALAN W. STACY ( editors ) Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi , Sage Publications , 2006 , 550 pp, $ 125.00 , ISBN 1 4129 0974 0 We know that the abuse of psychotropic substances is irrational, in the sense that in the long term the negative consequences exceed the positive ones, leading to a self‐destructive, life‐threatening behaviour. We understand quite well the pathways, processes and risk factors for the onset and course of substance use and related disorders, and we know from research and clinical experience that at some times in their life most drug‐dependent people have wanted to stop their harmful behaviour or to stay abstinent, but have failed to succeed. However, we have very limited evidence to predict, or even explain, why some develop problematic behaviours and others not, given the same experimental use; why some manage to reach abstinence and others not; and why some relapse and others not. There seems to be a discrepancy between personal will and urge, between higher‐order, reflective cognitive processes and basic, implicit, motivational driven processes. Perhaps the nature of these two systems, their interactions and individual differences 
TI - Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction
JF - Addiction
DO - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01865.x
DA - 2007-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/handbook-of-implicit-cognition-and-addiction-nwoogQkm3Y
SP - 1005
VL - 102
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -