Addiction as temporal disruption: interoception, self, meaning

Kemp, Ryan

doi:10.1007/s11097-018-9578-7

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“…Previous studies also confirmed that the reason why adolescents acquire non-adaptive cognition of the Internet world is closely related to their weak sense of the meaning of life. For adolescents who are still in the stage of physical and mental development, a lack of goals and low sense of control over the real world negatively affect their sense of the meaning of life and results in their desire to escape from the real world and in their dependence on the Internet world ( 16 ). As indicated in the meaning management theory of logotherapy, when an individual is hindered from evaluating the pressure they face in the real world and exploring the corresponding causes, he/she would be challenged in identifying the meaning of life.…”

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“…Exploratory research explored interventions for Internet addiction including mindfulness therapy ( 15 ). Logotherapy has also been widely used in the intervention for depression, anxiety, and other mental diseases; moreover, corresponding research results confirm that logotherapy has a more lasting intervention effect on mental diseases ( 16 ).…”

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Effects of Logotherapy-Based Mindfulness Intervention on Internet Addiction among Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Liu¹,

Jiang²,

Zhang³

2021

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Background: The global outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) has seriously affected people’s work and lives. Disaster-related traumatic stress events increase the risk of substance abuse. Therefore, the COVID19 outbreak, as a stress event, inevitably has a negative impact on Chinese adolescents with Internet addiction. Methods: In 2020, 1787 copies of the questionnaire were randomly distributed among adolescents aged 12–16 years in three communities in Shandong Province, China. Among the respondents, 121 Internet addicts voluntarily participated and were divided into the experiment group (60 members) and the control group (61 members). Logotherapybased mindfulness intervention was carried out on the experiment group. The effects of the intervention were analyzed after eight weeks of intervention. Results: After the intervention, significant decreases occurred in the scores of Internet addiction and its five dimensions in the experiment group (P < 0.05), thereby implying better invention effects in the experiment group than the control group. The experiment group exhibited an increase in the positive coping score and a decrease in the negative coping score (P < 0.05). Significant decreases were found in the anxiety and depression scores in the experiment group (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Logotherapy-based mindfulness intervention can significantly reduce the degree of Internet addiction among adolescents during the COVID-19 period, improve their positive emotions, reduce their negative emotions, and alleviate the degree of anxiety and depression in adolescents.

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confidence: 97%

Effects of Logotherapy-Based Mindfulness Intervention on Internet Addiction among Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Liu¹,

Jiang²,

Zhang³

2021

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“…Addiction also has effects on the executive control network such as vlPFC and dlPFC and on normal functioning of regions responsible for goal-seeking behaviour, such ventral and dorsal striatum (Goldstein & Volkow, 2011). This results in the diminishment of future-oriented behaviours, excessive valorisation of the present moment (Kemp, 2020), and in loss of self-control, for example, poor control over the urge to take drugs (Goldstein & Volkow, 2011). These findings, elucidating which brain structures have been disrupted and how and accounting for lack of control and compulsiveness, suggest the conceptualization of addiction as a disease.…”

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“…It is paradigmatic here the use of the word "host" which highlights how, far from being a subject, the body is considered an object. The rift between the body and the subject is also traceable in first-person reports mirroring how the body imposes courses of action, for example seeking drugs, "Your body knows it too, but your brain will not accept it" (Trujillo, 2004, p. 2), that are not always shared by the rational subject (Kemp, 2009(Kemp, , 2020Trujillo, 2004). Indeed, drug intake will always be privileged over any other environmental or subjective requirement, thus leading to the discounting of activities that before were deemed as fundamental.…”

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“…As a subject astonishing puts it: "Crack helps you forget everything even your children" (Trujillo, 2004, p. 16). Crack is naturally an extreme example, however, a discrepancy between the bodily wishes and the subjective wishes is highlighted by the feelings of shame, self-loathing, and guilt commonly reported by users of different drugs (Kemp, 2020). Secondly, the body has been described as less "mine" not only when in withdrawal and calling for its own relief, but equally when drugs are present, in moments of "loss of self" (Kemp, 2009).…”

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Addiction, cure or care?

Chinchella¹,

Hipólito²

2022

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Addiction has been historically conceived and widely researched as a brain disease. While there has been much criticism of brain-centred approaches to addiction, this paper aims to reject such an approach by applying insights from phenomenology of psychiatry. More precisely, the paper applies Merleau-Ponty’s insightful distinction between the biological and the lived body. In this light, the disease model emerges as an incomplete account of addiction because it captures only its biological aspects. When considering addiction as a brain disorder, it will be shown, research fails to account for the contextual, functional, and emotional aspects of subjective health. It is concluded that, while the disease model is fundamental to understand what happens in the brain, its brain-centred approach is cure-oriented. Tackling the lived body experience, what we label here as care-oriented, allows for a more encompassing therapeutical interaction: for it cares for understanding and treating the psychological feel as bodily experience situated in an environment.

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Specific Anthropology of Vulnerabilities, Substance Misuse, Addiction and Secondary Psychoses

Messas

2021

The Existential Structure of Substance Misuse

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Temporality is fundamental for understanding all experiences related to substance use, and, a fortiori, misuse (Messas et al. 2019b). From a temporal perspective, the main purpose of a voluntary act of substance use is to remove oneself from the habitual conditions of biographical temporality. Consciousness modification therefore reflects a search for new proportions of anthropological proportions, a new expression of existence (Messas 2014b) in which the dialectics between present, retention and protention might be modified by the historical self. For example, say somebody has a few drinks with friends after a demanding day's work. Their purpose in doing this is to temporarily release themselves from the worries of their job. By engaging in an experience that is intense and isolated in the present, they temporarily cut off any connection with the recent past, which, from an existential perspective, may be salutary. However, if retention is reduced to such an extent that all sense of social protocol is lost (e.g. a person who drives under the influence and thereby breaks the law and puts third parties at risk), this self-management can be defined as harmful.The possibility of instantly managing the dimensions of temporality interacts ambiguously with existence itself, sometimes enabling its expansion, sometimes its deconstruction. The capacity to move one's own temporal foundation grants the historical self unusual Dionysian powers over the plasticity of temporality -the ways the dimensions of retention, present and protention are articulated. And, as we will see below, this power extends through temporality to affect the other conditions of possibility of existence. It is the existential meaning of this self-mastery of the proportions of temporality that makes it harmful, productive or ambiguous.

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Addiction as temporal disruption: interoception, self, meaning

Cited by 14 publications

References 65 publications

Effects of Logotherapy-Based Mindfulness Intervention on Internet Addiction among Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Effects of Logotherapy-Based Mindfulness Intervention on Internet Addiction among Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Addiction, cure or care?

Specific Anthropology of Vulnerabilities, Substance Misuse, Addiction and Secondary Psychoses

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