Transcending Addiction - An Existential Pathway to Recovery Kemp Ryan Paperback
Transcending Addiction - An Existential Pathway to Recovery Kemp Ryan Paperback Addiction is often thought about in terms of cause, be that brain chemistry, attachment patterns or cognitive schemas.…
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Transcending Addiction - An Existential Pathway to Recovery Kemp Ryan Paperback
Addiction is often thought about in terms of cause, be that brain chemistry, attachment patterns or cognitive schemas. It does not illuminate how addiction is lived. But this does not allow an understanding of what addiction "is".
These are its individual clinical manifestations, but this is also the way life, in this century, is lived. A phenomenology of addiction reveals that addiction is characterised by an intolerance of pain, a pursuit of pleasure, immediacy, technocratic solutions, alienation, ambiguity and is drenched in deception. The addict is thus the ultimate 21st century subject, consuming without end, intolerant of emotion and unable to grasp their own limitations.
Rather than embraced, these subjects act as a denied symptom, haunting late capitalism and exposing the vampire-like nature of our culture. As such, these subjects need to be treated not just as individuals who