Ryan Kemp

Transcending Addiction (eBook, ePUB)

An Existential Pathway to Recovery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The heart of the book is a description of addiction deepened by existential-phenomenological theory. This description is then used to understand the historical emergence of addiction, its socio-political manifestation and also the crucial issue of how to clinically treat the addict-subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429802881
• Artikelnr.: 56831466

Autorenporträt

Ryan Kemp, PhD, is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist. He trained in South Africa and London and has over twenty years of experience in a variety of mental health settings. He is currently Director of Therapies in Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust and visiting lecturer at Regents University London. Previously he was the chair of the Faculty of Addiction in the British Psychological Society and has a wide range of clinical experience, including with drugs, alcohol, gambling, and technology-based addictions (computer games, internet).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Part I Setting the agenda
1. An introduction to addiction
2. What is existential phenomenology?
3. Existing theories of addiction
Part II Dimensions of the addictive lifeworld
4. Temporal dimension of addiction
5. The lived body of addiction
6. Being-with-others in addiction
7. The worlding of addiction
8. The symbolic aspects of addiction
Part III Towards a recovery from addiction
9. Treating the addicted subject
References
Index