“Making Peace With Oneself”: Internal Conflict in Addictions and Its “Resolution” in Therapeutic Group Interactions

Counselors and therapists on addictions and recovery from addictions are employing a variety of methods and techniques to break through the wall of denial and resistance. Accordingly, new methods of research are needed in order to describe and eventually understand the phenomenon of addictions and t...

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Main Authors: Claudia VARGA, Ion COPOERU
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Published: Babeș-Bolyai University 2023-11-01
Series:Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
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Online Access:https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/6668
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description Counselors and therapists on addictions and recovery from addictions are employing a variety of methods and techniques to break through the wall of denial and resistance. Accordingly, new methods of research are needed in order to describe and eventually understand the phenomenon of addictions and the ways of recovery from addictions. The paper attempts to define and describe the internal conflict and the way it is brought to the surface and “resolved” (processed and eventually transformed) in therapeutic group interactions. For that, we are using a phenomenological approach to conceptualize addiction in terms of connectedness and methods inspired by the analysis of interactions in order to document the transformative experience necessary for the recovery from addiction.
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spelling doaj-art-5ef9332776b042678d8d79e8edd3b4102025-08-20T02:51:58ZdeuBabeș-Bolyai UniversityStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia2065-94072023-11-0168Special Issue10.24193/subbphil.2023.sp.iss.07“Making Peace With Oneself”: Internal Conflict in Addictions and Its “Resolution” in Therapeutic Group InteractionsClaudia VARGA0Ion COPOERU1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0163-0154Addiction counsellor, Saint Dimitrie Program; PhD student, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: claudia.varga@ubbcluj.ro.Department of Philosophy, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: ion.copoeru@ubbcluj.ro. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0163-0154Counselors and therapists on addictions and recovery from addictions are employing a variety of methods and techniques to break through the wall of denial and resistance. Accordingly, new methods of research are needed in order to describe and eventually understand the phenomenon of addictions and the ways of recovery from addictions. The paper attempts to define and describe the internal conflict and the way it is brought to the surface and “resolved” (processed and eventually transformed) in therapeutic group interactions. For that, we are using a phenomenological approach to conceptualize addiction in terms of connectedness and methods inspired by the analysis of interactions in order to document the transformative experience necessary for the recovery from addiction.https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/6668addiction; recovery from addictions transformative experience; internal conflict; therapeutic group; phenomenological approach; analysis of interactions.
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“Making Peace With Oneself”: Internal Conflict in Addictions and Its “Resolution” in Therapeutic Group Interactions
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
addiction; recovery from addictions transformative experience; internal conflict; therapeutic group; phenomenological approach; analysis of interactions.
title “Making Peace With Oneself”: Internal Conflict in Addictions and Its “Resolution” in Therapeutic Group Interactions
title_full “Making Peace With Oneself”: Internal Conflict in Addictions and Its “Resolution” in Therapeutic Group Interactions
title_fullStr “Making Peace With Oneself”: Internal Conflict in Addictions and Its “Resolution” in Therapeutic Group Interactions
title_full_unstemmed “Making Peace With Oneself”: Internal Conflict in Addictions and Its “Resolution” in Therapeutic Group Interactions
title_short “Making Peace With Oneself”: Internal Conflict in Addictions and Its “Resolution” in Therapeutic Group Interactions
title_sort making peace with oneself internal conflict in addictions and its resolution in therapeutic group interactions
topic addiction; recovery from addictions transformative experience; internal conflict; therapeutic group; phenomenological approach; analysis of interactions.
url https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/6668
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