Description
Most people gamble believing that they are trying to win. In fact, the majority of gamblers lose, and may do so deliberately. Why then do so many people gamble huge sums of money when the odds are consistently stacked against them?
The first part of this book consists of a stimulating text by Peter Fuller, which sets earlier attempts to answer this question in their historical context, and also pioneers investigation into relatively uncharted areas.
The texts included in the second part stretch from 1901 to 1973, and include Freud's seminal study on Dostoevsky, as well as subsequent major contributions by psychoanalysts such as Edmund Bergler, Ralph Greenson and Robert Lindner. Indispensable to sociologists, psychologists, and students of gambling, this book is also intended to help gamblers understand more about their own predilection for loss.
Engrossing collection of important studies... a well documented basis for a study of themes on gambling psychology... most worthy of special note is Peter Fuller's own long introduction' - Peter Evans in New Scientist
'One should welcome any serious study that seeks to explain ... a theme of the first importance, and yet one so little understood: and such a book The Psychology of Gambling undoubtedly is - Colin Macinnes in The Times Educational Supplement
Cover design by Alan Aldridge ISBN:9780140220049 
