Fragmented Intimacy

Beschreibung

Neuware -I recall during my early years as a clinical psychologist being asked by hospital staff to speak with a 32-year-old man addicted to alcohol who was being discharged following treatment for pancreatitis. This had been his third admission for the same illness, and hospital practitioners were exasperated by his choice to continue dri- ing despite being repeatedly told it would cause irreparable damage to his pancreas from which he would be unlikely to survive. I met him in a side-room on the ward. He sat in his pyjamas in the corner of the room, thin and ashen looking, with a worried frown fixed across his face. Our conversation was initially stilted and I was trying hard not to replicate the lectures and sermons he was likely to have already received from hospital staff. As we talked I was able to piece together bits of inf- mation about his current circumstances: he lived alone, he was unemployed, and his only family contact was with a brother who visited to check on him occasionally. He started to relax into the conversation and then talked about his long struggles with alcohol: his drinking had begun in his early teens; it had provided him with con- dence and friendships; he had had some serious motor vehicle accidents; he had tried to stop drinking but soon continued; he had lost friends, jobs, and family re- tionships; and in response he had increasingly sought intoxication as a refuge.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 352 pp. Englisch.

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Titel

Fragmented Intimacy

Verlag

Springer New York, Springer US Okt 2010

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1441924868

ISBN-13

9781441924865

Einband

Taschenbuch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

235B x 155 H x 20 T Millimeter Breite: 235 mm, Höhe: 155 mm, Tiefe: 20 mm

Gewicht

534 Gramm

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