Gambling and Mental Health *The subject-matter of this article is treated more extensively in the author's book entitled "Behaviour in Uncertainty and its Social Implications", London: Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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Too gloomy Events have shown, I think, that this prediction was rather too gloomy. It is true that the gambling "turnover" in Britain is now on a vaster scale than ever, and is at least ?1,000 m. per annum. Even so, the present state of affairs cannot compare with the situation in the second half of the 17th and the early 18th centuries when the reaction against Puritanism, coupled with potent influences from the Continent, combined
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