Scripting addiction : the politics of therapeutic talk and American sobriety

Scripting addiction the politics of therapeutic talk and American sobriety

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, careful...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carr, E. Summerson, 1969- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2010.
Edition:Course Book
Subjects:
Medical anthropology.
Drug abuse > Treatment.
Culture > Semiotic models.
Communication and culture.
Language and culture.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798434406719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Considering the Politics of Therapeutic Language
  • CHAPTER ONE. Identifying Icons and the Policies of Personhood
  • CHAPTER TWO. Taking Them In and Talking It Out
  • CHAPTER THREE. Clinographies of Addiction
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Addicted Indexes and Metalinguistic Fixes
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Therapeutic Scenes on an Administrative Stage
  • CHAPTER SIX. Flipping the Script
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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