[PDF.78vj] Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety

Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety

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 | #693268 in Books |  2010-11-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x.90 x6.00l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Crucial and Careful Study|By P. Quinn|This is a patient, exhaustive and exacting ethnographic study. It forces one to think at once about social welfare policies, ideas of drug treatment, the limits and potentials of language and, maybe most of all, about the daily struggles of so many U.S. institutions charged with undoing addiction and dependency. The book's own careful act| |Winner of the 2012 Edward Sapir Book Prize, Society for Linguistic Anthropology

"[A] fresh and thought-provoking perspective on the interaction between addiction professionals and their clients. [Scripting Addiction] is also a remarkab

Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reco...

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