Life on the Rocks: Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recovery - Softcover

Peg O'Connor (author)

 
9781942094029: Life on the Rocks: Finding Meaning in Addiction and Recovery
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1942094027 ISBN 13: 9781942094029
Publisher: Central Recovery Press, 2016

Synopsis

LIFE ON THE ROCKS is the first book to address addiction and recovery from a western philosophical perspective, offering a powerful set of tools sharpened over millennia. Aimed at treatment professionals as well as people newly sober or in long-term recovery, it introduces some of the core concepts and vexing questions of philosophy to help addicts and those affected by their addictions examine and perhaps transform the meaning they make of their lives. Without assuming any familiarity with philosophy, LIFE ON THE ROCKS illuminates issues all addicts and their loved ones face: self-identity, moral responsibility, self-knowledge and self deception, free will and determinism, fatalism, the nature of God and their relations to others.

Addiction may be the starkest form of the most basic question a human faces: Shall I live or shall I die? If one chooses to live, then one must address the question of not only how to live, but how to live a good life. Addiction and recovery are, at their core, about the meaning of life. LIFE ON THE ROCKS is an indispensable guide to the deeply philosophical concerns at the heart of every addict's struggle.

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About the Author

Peg O'Connor is Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota. She is the author of the popular Psychology Today blog Philosophy Stirred, Not Shaken and contributor to the Pro Talk series at Rehabs.com.

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Publisher
Central Recovery Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1942094027
ISBN 13 
9781942094029
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
216