Scripting Addiction The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety

Name: Scripting Addiction The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety
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ISBN: 9780691144504

ISBN-10: 0691144508

ISBN-13: 9780691144504

Edition: 2011

Authors: E. Summerson Carr

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Scripting Addictiontakes 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, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The 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?To answer this question, anthropologist Summerson Carr traces the charged interactions between counselors, clients, and case managers at "Fresh…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/19/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.13" wide x 9.17" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

E. Summerson Carr is assistant professor at the School of Social Service Administration and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Anthropology and at the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Considering the Politics of Therapeutic Language



Identifying Icons and the Policies of Personhood



Taking Them In and Talking it Out



Clinographies of Addiction



Addicted Indexes and Metalinguistic Fixes



Therapeutic Scenes on an Administrative Stage



Flipping the Script


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index