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Transcending Addiction: An Existential Pathway to Recovery book cover

1st Edition

Transcending Addiction An Existential Pathway to Recovery

By Ryan Kemp Copyright 2018
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge
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Addiction is often thought about in terms of cause, be that brain chemistry, attachment patterns or cognitive schemas. But this does not allow an understanding of what addiction "is". It does not illuminate how addiction is lived. A phenomenology of addiction reveals that addiction is characterised by an intolerance of pain, a pursuit of pleasure, immediacy, technocratic solutions, alienation,... Read more

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part I Setting the agenda

1. An introduction to addiction

2. What is existential phenomenology?

3. Existing theories of addiction

Part II Dimensions of the addictive lifeworld

4. Temporal dimension of addiction

5. The lived body of addiction

6. Being-with-others in addiction

7. The worlding of addiction

8. The symbolic aspects of addiction

Part III Towards a recovery from addiction

9. Treating the addicted subject

References

Index

Biography

Ryan Kemp, PhD, is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist. He trained in South Africa and London and has over twenty years of experience in a variety of mental health settings. He is currently Director of Therapies in Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust and visiting lecturer at Regents University London. Previously he was the chair of the Faculty of Addiction in the British Psychological Society and has a wide range of clinical experience, including with drugs, alcohol, gambling, and technology-based addictions (computer games, internet).

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