The narrative analysis of recovery reports of alcohol addicted patients
This article highlights urgent problematic sphere of the multidimensional analysis of the phenomenon of alcohol addiction. The existing approaches to the problem of alcoholism only consider the personality of the individual. The social environment, in which this individual develops and seeks are recovery, is still little investigated. The work under consideration is devoted to this very problem. This research was conducted using the socio-cognitive approach that considers the integrated biological, psychological and sociological nature of people as a method of active forming and managing the world around them. This research uses the method of narrative analysis of the audio transcripts made during consultations with the patients admitting their alcohol addiction and abstaining from alcohol consumption. The narrations have been processed by means of the quantitative and qualitative content-analysis. The research results are one of the ways to solve the problem of rehabilitation for alcohol addiction patients. The rehabilitation is based on the contemporary achievements of sociology and psychology so these results can be used by medical psychologists, narcologists and other related specialists.