Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety by E. Summerson Carr

Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety

E. Summerson Carr

323 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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Scripting 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 hea...

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