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Gambling in recent years has become a major mainstream leisure activity. For most of us this enjoyable and exciting entertainment remains an occasional social activity, but for an increasing minority it becomes a destructive dependency. In this practical book, the author explores some of the motivations and attractions of gambling and the transition from social to problem gambling and how gambling dependency develops. He also describes strategies for breaking through the barrier of denial and explores relapse prevention and the vital role of helping agencies. This book is essential reading for anyone involved with a problem gambler either as a client, partner, or family member. It will be of interest to therapists, practitioners who are in contact with problem gamblers and their families, regulators and those working in the gambling industry.
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From Chapter 1: It is my belief that we are all gamblers in one form or another. It is human nature to take risks and gambling, as its simplest, is only a stylised form of that risk taking. If this is true we can surmise that gambling has been around as long as civilisation itself. Certainly there is evidence that circa 2000 BC the Egyptians were using knuckle bones painted as four-sided dice, and 500 years later the Chinese were enjoying a recognisable form of roulette. Throughout history whether encouraged or suppressed, the need for human to gamble has been exploited.
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