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Devoid of Hope

To be helpless is to be powerless, and powerlessness is a state devoid of hope. The addict, someone who at times feels helpless in addiction, will in time experience powerlessness. Such an experience...

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The Loneliness in Addiction

Rogers (1980) informed that an “element in our loneliness is the lack of any relationship in which we communicate our real experience…to another” (p. 166). When writing on the topic of how the addict...

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Isolation and Fantasy: A Fragmentation of Identity

Last week I discussed the conceptualization of identification in regards to the individual addict. In addiction, there is a great deal of focus on sobriety and stopping the behaviors related to...

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Symbolic Representations, Projections, Addiction, and Other

Singer (1965) explained that authors might hold opposing views, yet “the generally assumed commonality enables one human to grasp another experience through understanding his [her] symbolizations”...

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Depression, Spirituality, and Addiction: The Search for Meaning

I came across a statement by Sorajjakool, et. al. (2008) which inspired me to look at the interplay between depression, spirituality, and addiction:   “Depression creates a sense of spiritual...

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