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Scripting Addiction : The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety /

"Scripting Addiction takes 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, c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Carr, E. Summerson, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.