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The person is always more — infinitely more — than the addict. Thinking of the addict as your real nature, liable to erupt at any moment if you’re not careful, may be helpful as a practical measure, but is it really true?
Can the 12-step programme liberate us from a cult of individualism and materialism? Enjoying a good feeling from simply being alive may be a natural thing, but it’s not the default these days; we need to actively work on it.
Anyone struggling with addictive behavior patterns knows how perplexing and self-defeating they can be. But they also know what it’s like to be held firmly in their grip.
Most problem drinkers are not alcoholics, according to a recent study — and that should be a worry for “one size fits all” treatment programs that prioritize the task of overcoming actual chemical dependence.
Just as it’s part of the very nature of substance abuse and addiction to deny the obvious, it’s part of the nature of character disturbance for the person with character impairments to think that there’s nothing wrong.
While many clinicians claim to employ cognitive-behavioral principles in their strategies, often their interventions go light on the behavioral aspects of CBT and wind up looking far more like Cognitive Therapy (CT) than CBT.
What can a deceptively simple mobile phone game tell us about individual liberty and social responsibility?
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