Re: Addictions change
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961015180442.1d571378@goules.nat.fr>
Dear Bernard
You described in earlier postings the strategy of building a powerful
phobic response. Surely most alcoholics, however, are fully aware that
they are on the path to ruin - having lost jobs, friends etc:
anticipation of a dire outcome is not the same as a phobia (?). Will
they already have (sub)consciously accommodated in their ecology the
future implications of the addiction, for the opportunity now for
immediate gratification?
My question is: would it be most effective perhaps to find out which
phobias they now have: how they access the strategy and process the
phobic state - and then we can use a similar strategy for alcohol? (Most
people, I find have a phobia of something). Perhaps to associate the
substance directly with the current phobic object/situation?
Many thanks for your excellent mailings
Patrick Rea, London
prea@cix.compulink.co.uk