TY - BOOK ID - 216519 TI - Fragmented intimacy : addiction in a social world PY - 2008 SN - 128114147X 9786611141479 0387726616 0387726608 1441924868 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Compulsive behavior. KW - Intimacy (Psychology) KW - Compulsive behavior KW - Addicts KW - Treatment. KW - Social aspects. KW - Social networks. KW - Addicted persons KW - Addictive persons KW - Sick KW - Addictive behavior KW - Behavior, Compulsive KW - Compulsion (Psychology) KW - Impulse KW - Psychology, Pathological KW - Obsessive-compulsive disorder KW - Emotions KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Love KW - Psychology, clinical. KW - Health Psychology. KW - Clinical Psychology. KW - Public Health. KW - Clinical psychology. KW - Psychiatry KW - Psychology, Applied KW - Psychological tests KW - Health psychology. KW - Public health. KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - Health psychology KW - Health psychology, Clinical KW - Psychology, Clinical health KW - Psychology, Health KW - Salutogenesis KW - Clinical psychology KW - Medicine and psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:216519 AB - Fragmented Intimacy transcends familiar concepts of addiction by focusing not on addicts in isolation but on the social contexts that are disrupted and on the struggle that affects all those involved as they attempt to regroup and initiate change. Applicable to drugs, alcohol, and gambling, this engagingly written book offers both innovative theory and practice-strengthening interventions. Peter Adams’ social-ecology framework examines in depth how addiction disrupts social identity, becoming the dominant relationship in a person’s life and leading thereby to a weakening of connections to family, friends, workplace, and community. It examines how in the long-term course of an addiction one-on-one counseling will have little effect unless it assists in the re-engagement of these core intimacies. The author enhances the reader’s understanding with vignettes of addicted individuals’ lives as relationships are altered (and insights from such chemically-intimate authors as Burroughs and Poe), new takes on the therapeutic relationship, and examples of families, neighborhoods, and communities mobilizing as powerful forces for re-entry. A sample of the coverage: Rethinking addiction through the lens of intimacy. Social processes in intimacy versus social processes in addiction. Effects of addiction throughout the individual’s social networks. Opportunities for intervention at different stages of addiction. Resilience building at the individual, family, and community levels. Guidelines for family members in initiating change. Using social approaches to complement mainstream forms of therapy—starting with assessment. Fragmented Intimacy provides fresh perspective and new tools for frontline addiction counselors, clinical and health psychologists, social workers, and public health professionals while remaining accessible to the researcher or student in these fields. Its focus on the role of intimacy also provides a useful guide to family members in their response to addicted loved ones. ER -