Fragmented Intimacy (eBook)

Addiction in a Social World

Peter J. Adams (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2007 | 2008
XII, 340 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-72661-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Here is the first major work that examines the benefits of applying social understanding to addiction. The author demonstrates how a social perspective shifts the paradigm from viewing a person in terms of 'particles' to viewing a person in terms of relationships. This reorientation creates promising new opportunities for intervention. The book discusses recent advances in theories on community capacity building, resilience, and social ecology alongside their practical applications. Written in an engaging style, the book features numerous vignettes, key points, and illustrations that help you apply the material in your own practice.

Peter Adams has a practice background in clinical psychology and an academic background in critical social theory. He is currently Director of Social and Community Health at the School of Population Health, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand. He has developed and taught in postgraduate programs on addictions for the past ten years. Ideas for the book evolved from his 25-year involvement in research, teaching, and clinical intervention involving different aspects of addiction.

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I recall during my early years as a clinical psychologist being asked by hospital staff to speak with a 32-year-old man addicted to alcohol who was being discharged following treatment for pancreatitis. This had been his third admission for the same illness, and hospital practitioners were exasperated by his choice to continue dri- ing despite being repeatedly told it would cause irreparable damage to his pancreas from which he would be unlikely to survive. I met him in a side-room on the ward. He sat in his pyjamas in the corner of the room, thin and ashen looking, with a worried frown fixed across his face. Our conversation was initially stilted and I was trying hard not to replicate the lectures and sermons he was likely to have already received from hospital staff. As we talked I was able to piece together bits of inf- mation about his current circumstances: he lived alone, he was unemployed, and his only family contact was with a brother who visited to check on him occasionally. He started to relax into the conversation and then talked about his long struggles with alcohol: his drinking had begun in his early teens; it had provided him with con- dence and friendships; he had had some serious motor vehicle accidents; he had tried to stop drinking but soon continued; he had lost friends, jobs, and family re- tionships; and in response he had increasingly sought intoxication as a refuge.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Acknowledgement 7
Contents 8
Theory 11
Chapter 1 12
Addiction in Perspective 12
Chapter 2 27
A Social World 27
Chapter 3 45
Addiction and Connecting 45
Chapter 4 60
Responding to Addiction 60
Processes 78
Chapter 5 79
Becoming Intimate 79
Chapter 6 94
Intimacies in Addictive Contexts 94
Chapter 7 113
Intimacy and Power 113
Families and Communities 130
Chapter 8 131
Fragmented Lives 131
Chapter 9 155
Collective Opportunities 155
Chapter 10 177
Reintegration 177
Applications 200
Chapter 11 201
Family Resources 201
Chapter 12 224
Mobilizing Communities 224
Chapter 13 247
Applications to Practice 247
Chapter 14 274
Looking Ahead 274
Notes 285
Glossary 315
Bibliography 319
Author Index 332
Subject Index 337

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 340 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Schlagworte: addiction • Addiction and family • Addiction and intimacy • Addiction and society • Addiction and treatment • Addiction research • Assessment • Fragmented intimacy • Intervention
• ISBN-10: 0-387-72661-6 / 0387726616
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-72661-8 / 9780387726618