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The Sober Philosopher Workbook for Exploring Addiction and Creating Recovery
Many of us find ourselves living in ways making the question "Do I have a problem with alcohol or other drugs," unavoidable. No one can answer this question for another; each of us must answer for our own self. The questions in this workbook will invite new insights, which may challenge our own certain or even dogmatic views of ourselves. If we believe ourselves to be broken beyond repair or unsalvageable, we remain trapped and unwilling to try anything different. Loosening the grip of that certainty may make us willing to embrace new possibilities about how we can live. There are multiple paths out of addiction; there is no one right way. Recovery requires self-knowledge and willingness. Recovery is a deeply creative process, where each of us has the opportunity--as unwanted as it is--to transform ourselves and our lives.
Life on the Rocks
An indispensable guide to the deeply philosophical concerns at the heart of every addict's struggle. Addiction and recovery are, at their core, about the meaning of life. Life on the Rocks is the first book to address addiction and recovery from a Western philosophical perspective, offering a powerful set of tools sharpened over millennia. It introduces some of the core concepts and vexing questions of philosophy to help addicts and those affected by their addiction examine and perhaps transform the meaning they make of their lives. Without assuming any familiarity with philosophy, Dr. O’Connor illuminates issues all addicts and their loved ones face: self-identity, moral responsibility, s...
Summary of Richard O'Connor, PhD's Rewire
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 There are many self-destructive habits that we’re not even aware of. These include driving carelessly, being thoughtless, not listening, and neglecting our health. #2 The trick in overcoming self-destructive behavior is not to strengthen the conscious self so that you can control yourself better, but to train the automatic self to make wiser decisions unconsciously. Meanwhile, the conscious self has its work cut out in helping you get to know yourself better. #3 The plastic brain is the idea that our brains change and grow physically in response to life experience. New brain cells are constantly being formed, and new networks between cells keep growing as we learn new things. #4 We may be unaware of these patterns, but our friends and loved ones can see them at work because distance gives them objectivity. Social conventions prohibit us from telling others about them, and we probably wouldn’t listen anyway.
Happy Is the New Healthy
Neehall explores her views on the underlying causes of unhappiness, and shares her secrets to rewriting the frequent thoughts and redirecting the common behaviors that keep us in that state. She demonstrates, through examples from her 35 years of clinical practice, how others have successfully initiated the kinds of changes in their lives that engender feelings of peace, satisfying connection, and enduring happiness.
Shifting Ground
This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of epistemology. For some theorists, epistemology is an essentially foundationalist and hence discredited enterprise; for others-particularly analytic epistemologists--it remains rigorously segregated from political concerns. Scheman makes a compelling case for the necessity of thinking epistemologically in fundamentally altered ways. Arguing that it is an illusion of privilege to think that we can do without usable articulations of conc...
Dimensions of Pain
Pain research is still dominated by biomedical perspectives and the need to articulate pain in ways other than those offered by evidence based medical models is pressing. Examining closely subjective experiences of pain, this book explores the way in which pain is situated, communicated and formed in a larger cultural and social context. Dimensions of Pain explores the lived experience of pain, and questions of identity and pain, from a range of different disciplinary perspectives within the humanities and social sciences. Discussing the acuity and temporality of pain, its isolating impact, the embodied expression of pain, pain and sexuality, gender and ethnicity, it also includes a cluster of three chapters discusses the phenomenon and experience of labour pains. This volume revitalizes the study of pain, offering productive ways of carefully thinking through its different aspects and exploring the positive and enriching side of world-forming pain as well as its limiting aspects. It will be of interest to academics and students interested in pain from a range of backgrounds, including philosophy, sociology, nursing, midwifery, medicine and gender studies.
Revisiting the Nomadic Subject
This book follows the stories of forcefully displaced women and raises the question of whether we can still use the figuration of the nomadic subject in feminist theories and politics. This question is examined in the light of the ongoing global crises of mobility and severe border practices. In recounting their stories migrant and refugee women appear in the world as ‘who they are’ — unique and unrepeatable human beings —and not as ‘what they are’ —objectified ‘refugees’, ‘victims’ or ‘stateless subjects’. Women’s stories leave traces of their will to rewrite their exclusion from oppressive regimes, defend their choice of civil and patriarchal disobedience, grasp...
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Translation and Epistemicide
Translation has facilitated colonialism from the fifteenth century to the present day. Epistemicide, which involves destroying, marginalizing, or banishing Indigenous, subaltern, and counter-hegemonic knowledges, is one result. In the Americas, it is a racializing process. But in the hands of subaltern translators and interpreters, translation has also been used as a decolonial method. The book gives an account of translation-as-epistemicide in the Americas, drawing on a range of examples from the early colonial period to the War on Terror. The first chapters demonstrate four distinct operations of epistemicide: the commensuration of worlds, the epistemic marginalization of subaltern translators and the knowledge they produce, the criminalization of translators and interpreters, and translation as piracy or extractivism. The second part of the book outlines decolonial translation strategies, including an epistemic posture the author calls “bewilderment.” Translation and Epistemicide tracks how through the centuries translation practices have enabled colonialism and resulted in epistemicide, or the destruction of Indigenous and subaltern knowledge.
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction
The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society. It also poses important and complex philosophical and scientific problems. What is addiction? Why does it occur? And how should we respond to it, as individuals and as a society? The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject. It spans several disciplines and is the first collection of its kind. Organised into three clear parts, forty-five chapters by a team of international contributors examine key areas, including: the meaning of addiction to individuals conceptions of a...
