The Experience of Addiction as Told by the Addicted: Incorporating Biological Understandings into Self-Story

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 712-734

  Hammer, Rachel R ^a,b   Dingel, Molly J ^c   Ostergren, Jenny E ^d,e   Nowakowski, Katherine E ^d   Koenig, Barbara A ^f  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Biological etiology; Narrative therapy; Substance use disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869195658     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-012-9283-x     Document Type: Article

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