Welcome to the Unhooked Thinking blog where you can participate in changing the shape of addiction, in the broadest possible sense of the word.
Our 2006 and 2007 conferences were a great success: iconoclastic, infuriating and inspiring, as was intended.
I have every intention that we keep the project nagging at the edges of the many mythological envelopes that surround the phenomenon.
Our next conference will be in September 2008 – watch this space for details.
Audio recordings of many of the 2006 and 2007 sessions are being made available as fast as possible from the Conference Recordings page.
Notes and slides from other sessions are also available to download.
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June 11, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Great idea, this blog. Good luck with it. I look forward to dynamic discussions.
Dan Malleck
Editor-in-Chief
The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal
June 16, 2007 at 2:24 am
anyone here ever heard of rational recovery?
June 16, 2007 at 11:23 am
can we tackle about how are we going to help people with cases in the court who wants to recover and hopefully find themselves not guilty because when he commited the crime he was a victim of his own disease named addiction? I need your help on this….
June 20, 2007 at 11:59 pm
OOOPS, not a very active little blog.
Just wondered what you thought of these two fellows:
Theodore Dallrymple (sp?) http://www.manhattan-institute.org/romancingopiates/
and Jack Trimpey of Rational Recovery fame. http://www.rational.org
Two people who are definitely “nagging at the edges of the many mythological envelopes that surround the phenomenon.”
I’ll check back now and again to see if there is a response.
July 5, 2007 at 2:59 am
I like the idea of going further with help for addiction. I find myself battling many thoughts as I go on the road to recovery. I never thought that I had split personality untill I started to recover and discovered that it is OK to have these mixed feelings in my head.
July 5, 2007 at 5:41 pm
“discovered that it is OK to have these mixed feelings in my head.”
From my experience it’s the voice of the addiction which is the “other (mixed) feeling”.
Addiction is a very clever beast, but only a beast at that. The rational decision maker can/will learn to ignore any suggestion that using would be a good thing.
July 24, 2007 at 3:47 pm
many time for myself, particularly in early recovery, i seemed to have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other….. it takes time to ” reprogram ” our subconcious thoughts. after so many years of negativity, we need to do and think positive actions and thoughts. keep in mind that it is difficult to be grateful and depressed at the same time. gratitude is a key factor in my daily life.
“move a muscle, change a thought “