The Alcoholic Self

By Norman K. Denzin

Book Overview

Denzin offers a uniquely phenomenological approach to explain the development of an alcoholics sense of self that is fragmented, defensive and subjective. He discusses behavioural and psychoanalytic theories of the problem and considers the views of alcoholics themselves. He places the disease within a broader social context, arguing that the alcoholics internal conflicts reflect the dichotomies and contradictions in society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803927444
• ISBN13: 9780803927445
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.