By E. Summerson Carr
Scripting Addiction takes readers into the hugely ritualized international of mainstream American habit remedy. it's a global the place scientific practitioners review how drug clients talk about themselves and their difficulties, and the place the right of "healthy" speak is explicitly promoted, conscientiously monitored, and pointed out because the basic signal of healing development. The e-book explores the difficult query: why do dependancy counselors commit themselves to reconciling drug clients' courting to language to be able to reconfigure their courting to drugs?
to respond to this query, anthropologist Summerson Carr strains the charged interactions among counselors, consumers, and case managers at "Fresh Beginnings," an dependancy remedy software for homeless girls within the midwestern usa. She indicates that take care of, nutrition, or even the custody of kids cling within the stability of daily healing exchanges, corresponding to medical tests, person treatment periods, and self-help conferences. conscious about the excessive stakes of self-representation, skilled consumers learn and discover ways to successfully practice prescribed methods of conversing, a mimetic perform they name "flipping the script."
As a scientific ethnography, Scripting Addiction examines how a long time of medical theorizing approximately dependancy, language, self-knowledge, and sobriety is manifested in interactions among counselors and consumers. As an ethnography of the modern usa, the publication demonstrates the advanced cultural roots of the strong medical rules that form healing transactions--and through extension administrative exercises and institutional dynamics--at websites similar to "Fresh Beginnings."
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CD therapists did not simply worry about the kind of “message” that transportation failings sent to Fresh Beginnings clients; they also fretted about just what those clients would do with the message once they received it. Across HFC, practitioners were aware that some clients seized upon transportation problems to explain away their frequent absences on Cliff Street. However, fewer were willing to admit that what had once been referred to by clients as “the hook”—a firm mandate that required clients to attend daily therapy sessions in order to keep their HFCprovided housing or shelter—was being flexed and bent at will.
Drawing on the conversations of social service professionals and clients at Fresh Beginnings, as they work to establish and sustain program policy during troubling institutional times, this chapter illustrates the “motivated” processes by which icons come to realize their powerful political effects. The policy stage in focus here is a daylong retreat in which a range of program participants—from administrators and clinical supervisors to therapists and case managers—work together to rebuild the Fresh Beginnings program, which had recently suffered a series of institutional blows and troubles.
This eclectic and sometimes chaotic environment stands in marked contrast to the cloistered therapy rooms on the other side of the building. 28 • Chapter 1 Mirror-like, another set of stairs leads Fresh Beginnings clients to the L-shaped “group room” graced with cushy couches and pastel colored tissue boxes, to the chemical dependency (CD) therapists’ office where individual sessions proceed behind a carefully sealed door, and to a relatively large bathroom where urine is “dropped” for screening.
