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Can America Recover?
Evan Haines
Bob Forrest
其他書名
Reimagining the Drug Problem
出版
Oro House Books
, 2020-09-26
主題
Health & Fitness / General
Psychology / General
ISBN
1737974916
9781737974918
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mqayzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
A solution to the problem of addiction remains so elusive because we've been asking the wrong questions. We need to learn to look at things differently.In this book, we trace our mistreatment of people with mental health problems back to the birth of the asylum in 16th century Europe, and how our modern-day approaches can be just as violent, just more subtle and even benevolent-seeming. We closely examine the roots of the "cult of the individual" that so characterizes America today, along with all the resultant isolation and despair that fuels our addictions. More than the social determinants of health that underlie our soaring addiction rates, though, we find that it's our worldview itself that causes so much the unnecessary suffering we see today. In this wide ranging investigation, we blow wide open the conversation around addiction and mental health in America, bringing us face to face with our collective shadow, everything we've denied about ourselves up until now. Only by acknowledging and admitting who we really are will we ever be free from the grip of our unconscious instincts. A great many spiritual thinkers throughout history have pointed to ways through our troubles, and to the next stage in our evolution. We connect a number of these figures to the recovery process, thereby bringing it to life and demonstrating that issues of addiction and recovery are really at the heart of our very survival as a species. We propose a new "radical recovery," which we hope, in our own humble way, will inspire and help collectively guide us to the light. Addiction is not what we thought it was. Instead, it turns out, it is a powerful metaphor. Addiction is who we are. America may be Addiction, but so too can America recover.
