Re: Addiction : a definition - my thoughts
Dear Bernard and friends
There are a few wholes in the overall structure to the way we look at
addiction. Here are a few questions that came up for me while reading your
postings:
1. Have any of you looked at the root words that make up meaning for words like
"addiction", "dependancy", etc?
2. What are the social messages given the addicted person both by approving and
disapproving social groups at an overt and covert level?
3. What are the models for addiction and if as a NLP practitioner wanting to
model addcition, what are stratergies?
4. Using Bateson's Logical Levels model as a tool, where in this structure do
addicted people focus and experience their addicive behaviour?
5. Have any of you challenged the presuppostions of NLP with regards addiction?
6. Why are we accademiclly discussing "definitions" when we sould be discussing
effective methods, models and tools?
7. Do addicted people switch from their preffered modalities (eg. VK becomes
AK) to other modalities, and if so, how does this assist in MPD cases?
I would like to see the new year focus on practicle ways to better the lives of
those around us! I believe discussion is positive only if our outcome is kept
in mind!
I'm not tring to negate the postings of the others to this forum but feel that
it may assist all of us to focus on other areas that have not yet been opened
for comment.
This way I get to learn more !-)
Is the can of worms big enough or ... 2 x !-)
Love and Light.
Oliver.
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