Identity and Recovery from Dependent Drug Use: the addict's perspective

By James McIntosh, Neil McKeganey. 2001

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Alcohol and the self: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of addiction and its impact on the sense of self and identity (2009, background): “McIntosh and McKeganey (2001) describe the need to repair a ‘spoiled identity’ and a desire for a new identity and a different life-style, as central to their participants’ accounts.”
Recovery and desistance: what the emerging recovery movement in the alcohol and drug area can learn from models of desistance from offending (2017, unknown): “Attention is paid to offenders capacities and strengths, ‘encouraging clinicians to think clearly about just what it is that the person is seeking when committing the offence’ (McMurran & Ward 2004, p. 302).”