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Title |
Gamble For Life And Death |
Series |
Fates and Addictions |
Author(s) |
Péter Fekete |
Publisher |
L'Harmattan Kiadó |
Place of publishing |
Budapest |
Year of publishing |
2005 |
No. of pages |
170 |
ISBN |
978-963-7343-44-X |
Abstract |
We launched the series of “Fates and Addictions” because beside more and more available scientific literature we wanted to show the nature of addiction from a different view. We often hear – not unfairly - critics about experts' argument simplifying feelings, experiences to numbers and diagrams. New wave of researches also works with narratives providing solution for the problem mentioned above. However, the researcher appears, analyses, defines, the research stock is not questionnaire but text: the narrative. Well, “Fates and addictions” even does not go to this level. Only works are published within this series where main character, author, researcher are the same person, like Fekete Péter's story. It is retrospection to the first decades of a walk of life full of addictions. Although the author in the meantime became professional and started to work as one of the first addictology consultants in Hungary, he goes slow with theories, explanations and handles them subjective through his own experiences. As far as we know such book about gamble addiction – beside the author's previous work – has not been published in Hungary, moreover this topic is rare even in scientific literature. It seems society's interest is more sensitive for addiction caused by chemical substances (especially illicit drugs) and hardly can recognize dangers of behavioural addictions. In this approach the individual is overshadowed and the drug itself is over emphasized. Drugs can be really seemed more terrific and ruinous than games. But we often forget that nothing turns destructive itself, not the drug itself is dangerous but the usage of drugs and not the game itself but gambling under urge displacing everything from normal life. To turn addict of drugs or games does not depend only on drugs but on individual's characteristic, problems and sensibility. We can not emphasize enough the message of the book: let's look for the nature of addictions through human lives and understand it through fates. (Zsolt Demetrovics, editor of series »Fates and Addictions«) |
Remarks |
In Hungarian |
