Article(electronic)November 23, 2023

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

In: Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philosophia, Volume 68, Issue Special Issue, p. 97-110

Addiction counsellor, Saint Dimitrie Program; Varga, Claudia; Copoeru, Ion; 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.

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Abstract

"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. Keywords: addiction; recovery from addictions transformative experience; internal conflict; therapeutic group; phenomenological approach; analysis of interactions. "

Publisher

Babes-Bolyai University

ISSN: 2065-9407

DOI

10.24193/subbphil.2023.sp.iss.07

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