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Addiction, Power and Gender
Author(s) -
Lobsinger Chris
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1997.tb00297.x
Subject(s) - addiction , dependency (uml) , psychology , power (physics) , compatibility (geochemistry) , social psychology , relation (database) , sociology , computer science , engineering , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , data mining , physics , quantum mechanics , chemical engineering
This paper examines addictive behaviour in relation to power and gender and introduces the notion of ‘addiction as a disordered power arrangement embedded in gender’ (Bepko, 1989). The notion of power in terms of relationship positions and their impact on addictions is discussed. The popular concepts of powerlessness and co‐dependency are examined in terms of their clinical usefulness and compatibility within this framework.