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9780684827209

Message in a Bottle

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  • ISBN13:

    9780684827209

  • ISBN10:

    0684827204

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-12-01
  • Publisher: Free Pr
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Summary

This series of intimate and penetrating portraits of male addicts provides a unique window onto how men relate to drugs and alcohol--and why so many are drawn to these substances. Poignant and deeply moving, "Message in a Bottle" brings readers to a fuller understanding of these men and the world in which they live.

Table of Contents

Foreword IX(3)
Robert Coles, M.D.
Acknowledgments XII
Part One: INTRODUCTION 3(46)
1. BATTLING SOBRIETY: The Lives of Men Suffering Chronic Addiction
3(21)
2. IDENTITY, MEANING, AND DESPAIR
24(25)
Part Two: PROBLEMS WITH COMMUNION 49(44)
3. THE JEWEL OF PRISON: A Gay Addict's Forbidden Intimacy
49(17)
4. THE BOYS OF SKIPPER'S DECK: Drinking Circles in Chronic Addiction
66(27)
Part Three: PROBLEMS WITH AGENCY 93(94)
5. WHEN THE DEVIL GRABS YOUR ANKLE: Poverty's Line of Despair
93(35)
6. LUST AND GREED: Addiction and the Empty Self
128(29)
7. WHO WAS INSIDE MICKEY MANTLE?: Addiction and the Heroes of Sport
157(30)
Part Four: PROBLEMS WITH IDENTITY FORMATION 187(90)
8. WAR ON MEMORY: A Vietnam Veteran's Struggle with the Continuity of Identity
187(26)
9. THE TORTURE: Abuse, Addiction, and the Search for Authentic Identity
213(34)
10. INVISIBLE MEN: The Absence of Identity
247(30)
Conclusion RECOVERING IDENTITY AND MEANING 277(27)
Update 304(2)
Appendix 306(2)
Notes 308(21)
Index 329

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