Addiction Rehab: Audrey Laporte on Brian Ferguson’s “Is Addiction a Failure of Rationality?”.
Audrey Laporte on Brian Ferguson’s “Is Addiction a Failure of Rationality?”.
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Subst Use Misuse. 2012 Nov; 47(13-14): 1645-7
Laporte A
Is addiction a failure of rationality?
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Subst Use Misuse. 2012 Nov; 47(13-14): 1640-4
Ferguson B
This note argues that addiction itself can be seen as a form of double failure, specifically the failure to stick to a predetermined optimal lifetime consumption path for an addictive commodity, which failure might be the result of bad luck, and the failure to adjust the level of consumption of the addictive commodity once the consumer is off their optimal path, which might be seen as a failure of judgment.
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Failure and transformation in the relationship between patient and therapist.
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Subst Use Misuse. 2012 Nov; 47(13-14): 1490-7
Allamani A
In the field of addictions, the changes believed to be effective by health professionals are usually those founded on programs based on the idea of control. However, control has its own limitations, and failures. Some failures in treating addiction appear to start a transformation of experience, be it personal or regarding the therapeutic relationship. A typical example of failure and transformation is how Alcoholics Anonymous works; this was originated by the spiritual direction that Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung gave to one of his alcoholic patients. In extreme cases of the patient’s death, professionals may experience absolute defeat and powerlessness. In any case, failure implies a deflation of the ego and the defeat of egocentrism.
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Ron Roizen on Bruce Alexander’s “Addiction: The Urgent Need for a Paradigm Shift” A Measurement Nightmare.
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Subst Use Misuse. 2012 Nov; 47(13-14): 1485-9
Roizen R
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