Monograph
(Two monographs follow) |
A Case Illustration Employing
"Counter-Conditioning Therapy®"
in the Treatment of Substance-Abuse
Outpatients
Telling an alcoholic that he is a helpless victim of a disease serves to absolve that person of responsibility in picking-up the drink in the first instance. That it was he, alone, who picked up the drink, and thus poisoned himself, is ignored by cognitive therapies. The medical-psychological mental health industry fosters the fiction that the abuser's condition is not of the abuser's making, and therefore, the patient is not responsible for producing his condition. Calling substance-abuse a disease, as do cognitive therapies, lets the user off of the hook, because "Society can't morally ignore someone who is sick".
The Center's research findings contradict those of the medical-psychological mental health industry. The Center finds that substance abusing is an "accumulative syndrome" (of substance poisoning), whereby, one's initial physical hardiness breaks down under the constant ingestion of toxic substances. Had the substance poisoning not occurred, the C-CTherapy® practitioner would be treating a condition of chronic depression, only, not a combination of systemic poisoning and chronic depression. It is the chronic depression which originally set the mental scene for substance abusing. To successfully treat substance abusing, the NON-COGNITIVE C-CTherapy® therapist must recognize and treat the abusing as a result of the patient's attempt to treat his chronic depression through self-medication.
To view monograph 1, click here
NOTE: This monograph is meant for the practicing
psychotherapist who wishes to apply the C-CTherapy® format. Understanding
its contents, however, will not supply the mode of application. Instruction
at the Center is the only means available to practice in C- CTherapy®.
The Ritual of Substance-Abuse
What COGNITIVE medical-model research alludes to as genetically-based behavior (a mysterious mental pre-disposition which compels the person to continue abusing despite its debilitating effects) is really an emotional obsession that accompanies habit-based ritualistic behavior. When an abuser quits "boozing", he is faced with all the free-time previously consumed by the ritual and faces his mental stance with nothing to look forward to in life . This abundance of free-time, plus the disruption in ritual, together create the grounds for anxiety. The low tolerance for anxiety -- because it produces mental pain -- provides the abuser with the motivation to rekindle his "boozing" habit. Based upon the Center's research, the C-CTherapy® practitioner treats the anxiety created by the disruption of the patient's ritual.
To view monograph 2, click here
NOTE: This monograph is meant for the practicing psychotherapist who wishes to apply the C-CTherapy® format. Understanding its contents, however, will not supply the mode of application. Instruction at the Center is the only means available to practice in C-CTherapy®.