Fragmented Intimacy Addiction in a Social World /

• Main Author: Adams, Peter J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Public health.; Clinical psychology.; Health psychology.; Health Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Public Health.

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 eng...

Table of Contents:

• Theory
• Addiction in Perspective
• A Social World
• Addiction and Connecting
• Responding to Addiction
• Processes
• Becoming Intimate
• Intimacies in Addictive Contexts
• Intimacy and Power
• Families and Communities
• Fragmented Lives
• Collective Opportunities
• Reintegration
• Applications
• Family Resources
• Mobilizing Communities
• Applications to Practice
• Looking Ahead.