Thank you for the information.


Peter Ferentzy


>From: Maria Swora <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Alcohol and Drugs History Society <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: addiction as metaphor
>Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 07:14:21 -0700
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>I turn to an unused old email account, and I find this amid hundreds of 
>messages.
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>In my research on AA, I found it impossible to draw a straight 
>historical biography on the disease metaphor, but there are antecedents, 
>going back to Benjamin Rush in the 1780s. 
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>I published a somewhat related paper on this question:  Swora, Maria 
>Gabrielle, 2001, "Personhood and Disease in Alcoholics Anonymous" Mental 
>Health, Religion, and Culture
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>Don't believe everything you think.
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>--- On Mon, 8/11/08, Peter Ferentzy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>From: Peter Ferentzy <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: addiction as metaphor
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 3:07 PM
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>Hi All,
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>I've taken an interest in the idea of psychobehavioral ailments as
>metaphoric "diseases", and am interested in pursuing the matter in
>depth.
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>Does anyone know the origins of AA's allergy theory? I doubt that the
>practitioner who speaks for them, Silkworth, created the idea himself
>(though I could be wrong).
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>Then there's the public health model, which draws parallels to infection
>control. Does anyone know where this began?
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>Thanks,
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>Peter
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