The Alcoholic Society

by Denzin,Norman K.

• ISBN13: 9781560006695
• ISBN10: 1560006692
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-01-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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. The work is solidly anchored in a long-term study of the socialization experiences that began in alcoholism treatment centers and continue in Alcoholics Anonymous recovery programs. It covers the treatment process, the restructuring of self, the alcoholic's interaction with his recovery treatment program, and the modalities of self-transcendence that result from treatment.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Studying Alcoholism, Interpreting Recovery	p. 1
Science and Alcoholism	p. 15
Alcoholics Anonymous and Alcoholism	p. 49
Alcoholics and Alcoholism	p. 63
The Six Theses of Alcoholism	p. 91
The Alcoholically Divided Self	p. 121
The Recovering Alcoholic Self	p. 153
The Paradoxes of Treatment: Introduction to the New Self	p. 181
Experiencing Treatment	p. 211
The A.A. Group	p. 243
Slips and Relapses	p. 275
The Recovery of Self	p. 307
Interpreting Alcoholism and Recovery	p. 347
Conclusion: Self, Temporality, and Alcoholism	p. 359
Glossary	p. 371
References	p. 383
Name Index	p. 405
Subject Index	p. 409
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