The existential meaning of recovery

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dc.contributor.authorMuir, Bruce Alexanderen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-14T22:55:04Z
dc.date.available2024-08-14T22:55:04Z
dc.date.copyright2002en_US
dc.date.issued2002
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Careen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractHuman beings are beings of meaning; we seek meaning in our lives and for our lives. Existential theory proposes that we are also beings faced with the responsibility of making free choices, choices designed to support each and every one of us to live an authentic life in relationship with others. Those of us who have suffered in a life of addiction enter into our recovery needing and desiring to develop an altered system of meaning. A small number of men and women who identify themselves as being in recovery were interviewed and asked, "What is the meaning of recovery in your life?" In addition, the author of this study responded to that same question. All interviews were audio taped, transcribed verbatim, edited to a series of coherent addiction-to-recovery life stories, and the author was presented a dialectical analysis of existential meaning of recovery in his life.
dc.format.extent183 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/19063
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.titleThe existential meaning of recoveryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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