Neurocentrism and Name-Calling: Let’s Agree to Agree. Reply to Satel & Lilienfeld

Abstract

Although these authors sometimes resort to medical terminology, we strongly agree that addiction is not a disease and that the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) captures only one part of the story and distorts the big picture. Yet Satel and Lilienfeld continue to conflate a neurobiological model (such as mine) with a disease model. They also complain that my modeling of addiction reveals a hidden "neurocentric" bias, despite my integration of multiple levels of analysis, exactly as they recommend.

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