Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety

Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety

by E.SummersonCarr (Author)

Synopsis

Takes readers into the ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. This book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to reconfigure their relationship to drugs?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 07 Nov 2010

ISBN 10: 0691144508
ISBN 13: 9780691144504