LEADER 04128nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910818896703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-93651-4 010 $a9786612936517 010 $a1-4008-3665-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400836659 035 $a(CKB)2670000000059182 035 $a(EBL)617260 035 $a(OCoLC)697184507 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000472988 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284043 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472988 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10436946 035 $a(PQKB)10441770 035 $a(DE-B1597)446746 035 $a(OCoLC)979582039 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400836659 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617260 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000059182 100 $a20100419d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aScripting addiction $ethe politics of therapeutic talk and American sobriety /$fE. Summerson Carr 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-14450-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Considering the Politics of Therapeutic Language --$tCHAPTER ONE. Identifying Icons and the Policies of Personhood --$tCHAPTER TWO. Taking Them In and Talking It Out --$tCHAPTER THREE. Clinographies of Addiction --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Addicted Indexes and Metalinguistic Fixes --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Therapeutic Scenes on an Administrative Stage --$tCHAPTER SIX. Flipping the Script --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aScripting 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, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to reconfigure their relationship to drugs? To answer this question, anthropologist Summerson Carr traces the charged interactions between counselors, clients, and case managers at "Fresh Beginnings," an addiction treatment program for homeless women in the midwestern United States. She shows that shelter, food, and even the custody of children hang in the balance of everyday therapeutic exchanges, such as clinical assessments, individual therapy sessions, and self-help meetings. Acutely aware of the high stakes of self-representation, experienced clients analyze and learn to effectively perform prescribed ways of speaking, a mimetic practice they call "flipping the script." As a clinical ethnography, Scripting Addiction examines how decades of clinical theorizing about addiction, language, self-knowledge, and sobriety is manifested in interactions between counselors and clients. As an ethnography of the contemporary United States, the book demonstrates the complex cultural roots of the powerful clinical ideas that shape therapeutic transactions--and by extension administrative routines and institutional dynamics--at sites such as "Fresh Beginnings." 606 $aMedical anthropology 606 $aDrug abuse$xTreatment 606 $aCulture$xSemiotic models 606 $aCommunication and culture 606 $aLanguage and culture 615 0$aMedical anthropology. 615 0$aDrug abuse$xTreatment. 615 0$aCulture$xSemiotic models. 615 0$aCommunication and culture. 615 0$aLanguage and culture. 676 $a362.29 700 $aCarr$b E. Summerson$f1969-$01755546 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818896703321 996 $aScripting addiction$94192380 997 $aUNINA