Ego atrophy in addiction illustrated through American cultural music folklore |
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Authors: | James Fine Samuel Juni |
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Institution: | (1) Motivational Services, Inc., USA;(2) New York University, USA;(3) Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, 400 East Building, 10003-6674 New York, NY |
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Abstract: | Popular music is an artifact of folklore that can provide a keen insight into societal complexity. As a window with minimal
censorship, it allows access to a subgroup whose motifs are often obfuscated from within and without by defensive and self
righteous distortions. Music is a primary source depicting the strivings and failings of a culture or its tributaries. An
overview is offered of the American social historical context of substance abuse, as it informs the theory of ego atrophy
to conceptualize addiction. In this study, it is appealed to as an aid in the elaboration of addictive behavior. Adjunctively,
major themes in movie pictures are referenced as parallel, albeit less refined, indices of stereotype in the culture. Together
with societal laws and mores, these markers point to a specific behavioral and value system that typifies the ego of the substance
abuser. |
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