Mental Health and Enhancement : : Substance Use and Its Social Implications.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior Series
• Author: Schleim, Stephan.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Disclaimer -- Foreword -- Instrumental Drug Use -- Embedded in Culture -- Challenges -- Mental Health and Enhancement -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Mental Health -- 2.1 Three Classic Views to Make Sense of Things -- Essentialism -- Social Constructionism -- Excursion: What Is Money? -- Social Constructionism: Historical Examples -- Pragmatism -- 2.2 What Is Addiction? -- How Likely Is Dependence? -- The DSM on Addiction -- Two Pragmatic Views -- 2.3 Recent Diagnostic Trends -- Is the Prevalence of Mental Disorders Increasing? -- New Disorders -- 2.4 Interim Conclusion: Mental Disorders Are Not Things -- References -- Chapter 3: Mental Enhancement -- 3.1 The Debate -- Moral Enhancement -- Cognitive or Neuroenhancement -- Central Arguments -- Is it Really About Cognition? -- 3.2 How Common is It Really? -- Comparison to the Past -- Neuroenhancement in the Media -- Medical or Nonmedical Use -- 3.3 Nonpharmacological Alternatives -- 3.4 Interim Conclusion: Hype or Reality? -- References -- Chapter 4: Substance Use -- 4.1 Kinds of Substances -- Three Kinds of Drugs -- Classification Systems -- 4.2 Historical Examples -- Cocaine and Opium -- A Current Example -- 4.3 Instrumental Use -- Instrumentalization Goals -- Theoretical Reflection -- 4.4 Values -- References -- Chapter 5: Conclusion and Outlook -- 5.1 Overall Conclusion -- 5.2 Outlook -- 5.3 Personal Conclusion -- References -- Index.