The Alcoholic Society: Addiction and Recovery of the Self

ISBN-13: 9781138534179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 412 str.

Reece McGee; Norman K. Denzin

Opis

Offering a unique theoretical foundation to understanding the lived experience of the active alcoholic, Denzin asserts that alcoholism is a disease in which negative emotions divide the self into warring, inner factions, fueled and distorted by alcoholic intoxication

Spis treści

1: Introduction:; I: Differing Views of Alcoholism; 2: Science and Alcoholism; 3: Alcoholics Anonymous and Alcoholism; 4: Alcoholics and Alcoholism; 5: The Six Theses of Alcoholism; II: The Alcoholic Self; 6: The Alcoholically Divided Self; 7: The Recovering Alcoholic Self; III: Treating the Alcoholic Self; 8: The Paradoxes of Treatment; 9: Experiencing Treatment; IV: A.A. and the Social Worlds of Recovery; 10: The A.A. Group; 11: Slips and Relapses; 12: The Recovery of Self; 13: Interpreting Alcoholism and Recovery; 14: Conclusion

O autorze

Reece McGee