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Identifier 000454816
Title Ενσώματος εαυτός και εξάρτηση από την ηρωίνη : η εμπειρία του βιωμένου σώματος ανδρών-μελών σε πρόγραμμα υποκατάστασης στο ταξίδι τους από την εξάρτηση στην απεξάρτηση
Alternative Title Embodied self and heroin-addiction : the experience of the lived body of men attending substitution therapy on their journey from addiction to recovery
Author Καπαράκη, Ειρήνη
Thesis advisor Τριλίβα Σοφία
Reviewer Τζανάκης Μανόλης
Τσέλιου Ελευθερία
Abstract The present research endeavor focuses on men’s embodied sense of self as they transgress the recovery process in opioid substitution programs. Five men the treatment program of the Organization Against Drugs were interviewed and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was applied in analyzing the data. The men described how the use and abuse of heroin has increased their self-consciousness, negative sense of ownership of body parts impacted by the use of heroin, sense of agency regarding their insatiable use and self-related representations. Common embodied experiences during the years of heroin use among the participants coalesced into five Group Experiential Themes: a) the powerful “heroin high” and “burning” veins, b) the insatiable craving that becomes a sole self-purpose and leads to entrapment, c) playing ‘hide-and-seek’ from the addiction ‘disease’, d) the revealing body that depicts the collapse from the ‘vicious circle’ of heroin use, and d) the depleted and neglected body, self and life. Concomitantly, the narratives reveal the internalized dominant discourses emanating from the social world and the rehabilitation programs and their effects on their embodied selves. Their descriptions highlighted their adoption of spoiled identities along with subsequent undertaking and/or absence of corresponding action and care for the body. The body seems to be bypassed or hidden, a tool that serves heroin use, while constantly straddling the line between neglect and care. This research is one of the few attempts to approach and investigate in depth embodied self of men who use heroin and who are undergoing therapy with a qualitative methodology in the Greek literature. Future research should focus on the investigation of the embodied self in women who use drugs and in people who are not in therapeutic programs whilst applying multimodal qualitative research methods.
Language Greek
Subject Addiction
Embodied self
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)
Spoiled identity
Ενσώματος εαυτός
Εξάρτηση
Ερμηνευτική Φαινομενολογική Ανάλυση
Φθαρμένη ταυτότητα
Issue date 2023
Collection   School/Department--School of Social Sciences--Department of Psychology--Post-graduate theses
  Type of Work--Post-graduate theses
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