Evidence for a common dissociative-like reaction among addicts

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  • author:

    Durand F. Jacobs

  • published in

    : 1988

  • summary

    : A questionnaire was designed to test selected aspects of the author's General Theory of Addictions (Jacobs, 1982). Data were collected from groups of compulsive gamblers, alcoholics, and compulsive overeaters, and compared with the responses to the same questionnaire obtained from normative samples of adolescents and adults. The more inclusive term, ldquocompulsive gambler, has been used throughout, since the sample of gamblers in this study included an inpatient subgroup who had been diagnosed as ldquopathological gamblers, as well as a subgroup of Gamblers Anonymous members who had not been clinically evaluated. Findings support the author's theoretical position that, when indulging, different kinds of addicts will tend to share a common set of dissociativelike experiences that differentiate them from nonaddicts. This has been termed a ldquostate of altered identity.

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  • type

    : article in journal

  • publisher

    : Springer Netherlands

  • is part of a publication

    : Journal of Gambling Studies

  • volume

    : 4

  • issue

    : 1

  • original language

    : English

  • article pagination

    : start page: 27 - end page: 37
  • ISSN: 1050-5350

  • keywords

    : addiction
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