Working a program of recovery in alcoholics anonymous
| Autor: | John N. Chappel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
Higher self
Psychotherapist Omnipotence business.industry Grandiosity Addiction media_common.quotation_subject Alcoholics Anonymous Medicine (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Spiritual life Health care medicine Early childhood Pshychiatric Mental Health medicine.symptom business Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 11:99-104 |
| ISSN: | 0740-5472 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0740-5472(94)90023-x |
| Popis: | WE q INDEBTED TO Khantzian and Mack, hereafter refer&l to as “the authors,” for providing useful stimulus examining how Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) works. All health care professionals working with alcoholics need to have both knowledge and skill in helping their clients/patients utilize the valuable treatment resource AA provides. The authors’ current article builds on the work begun by Bean (1975) and Mack (1981) in providing a scientific rationale not only for the program of AA but also for the spiritual stimulus that appears to contribute so much to recovery from addiction. With regard to understanding the spiritual aspects of AA, the authors have added little to their observation that “the idea of God, or a power greater than oneself, may be a step in the direction of taming and transforming infantile omnipotence and serving in early childhood to establish a capacity for objective love” (Khantzian & Mack, 1989). This valuable theory is supported by Coles’s (1990) research on the spiritual life of children. It is also supported by the clinical experience of grandiosity and omnipotence associated with deteriorating and lost object relationships that occur so often in active drug-addicted individuals. In their current article, the authors, in their conclusion, have added a definition of spiritual life “as the longing for or experience of meaning, purpose, or connection with an unknown reality behind the manifest one and a higher self both within and outside the person.” It would be very helpful if they gave examples showing how the clinician can use the spiritual aspects of AA to help the addicted patient speed up and deepen her or his recovery. |
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