"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 "healthy"
talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as
the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the
puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves
to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to
reconfigure their relationship to drugs?
To answer this question, anthropologist Summerson Carr traces
the charged interactions between counselors, clients, and case
managers at "Fresh Beginnings," an addiction treatment program for
homeless women in the midwestern United States. She shows that
shelter, food, and even the custody of children hang in the balance
of everyday therapeutic exchanges, such as clinical assessments,
individual therapy sessions, and self-help meetings. Acutely aware
of the high stakes of self-representation, experienced clients
analyze and learn to effectively perform prescribed ways of
speaking, a mimetic practice they call "flipping the script."
As a clinical ethnography, "Scripting Addiction" examines how
decades of clinical theorizing about addiction, language,
self-knowledge, and sobriety is manifested in interactions between
counselors and clients. As an ethnography of the contemporary
United States, the book demonstrates the complex cultural roots of
the powerful clinical ideas that shape therapeutic
transactions--and by extension administrative routines and
institutional dynamics--at sites such as "Fresh Beginnings."
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