The Hand Of Addiction A Transcontextual And Autoethnographic Becoming Weston Robins by Weston Robins 9781040109533, 9781032738086, 1032738081, 1040109535 instant download after payment.

The Hand of Addiction maps out addiction from an innovative and holistic
perspective, challenging the pervasive discourses surrounding addiction in
many fields. Using the metaphor of a hand, the author examines addiction
through five conceptual lenses—biomedical, psychological, sociocultural,
developmental, and spiritual., The book successfully integrates Gregory Bateson’s understanding of the
human hand and further extends it to the study of addiction, studying the
relationships between the different fingers (lenses) to reveal how the study
of addiction so far has been myopic and compartmentalized. Using an
autoethnographic approach, the author constructs a transcontextual mapping
of the potential of addiction and challenges what we claim to know about
addiction, aiming to understand addiction from a novel perspective. The
book also discusses practical strategies that can be used to support those with
addiction in various forms. An important contribution to the literature on addiction studies, this book
will be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students in the fields
of psychology, sociology, cultural studies, and other related disciplines. It will
also be relevant for those interested in the philosophy and ethnography of
addiction or those working in mental health.