The importance of self-narration in recovery from addiction

: Addiction involves a chronic deficit in self-governance that treatment aims to restore. We draw on our interviews with addicted people to argue that addiction is, in part, a problem of self-narrative change. Over time, agents come to strongly identify with the aspects of their self-narratives that...

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Main Authors: McConnell, DW, Snoek, A
Format: Journal article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2018