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Contribution à l'Etude des Valeurs Existentielles Chez les Alcooliques
Author(s) -
JURIJ ZALOKAR
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
british journal of addiction to alcohol and other drugs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0007-0890
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1969.tb02350.x
Subject(s) - taboo , faith , philosophy , psychology , psychoanalysis , social psychology , epistemology , sociology , anthropology
96 alcoholics in course of treatment wrote essays on the subjects of suffering, death and faith. We subsequently studied these essays by the method of analysis of the contents. The results confirmed the clinical impression that in alcoholics one can find no deeper vital philosophy. The ideas expressed by alcoholics reflect on the one hand the chiefly sensualist mentality and consuming of the present time and, on the other hand, a good dose of primitivism and incompleteness. For most of them suffering presents only an evil, whilst they avoid the thought of death as being something taboo. Concerning religion, they expressed faith only in varied immediate values. In none of the essays did we find any reflections on the deeper questions of man.