The subjectivity of the rehabilitant’s personality as conceived by temperance movements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2021-3-386-394
The subjectivity of the rehabilitant’s personality as conceived by temperance movements
Varvara A. Zotova
Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow)
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Jinna G. Litinskaya |
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow)
Varvara A. Zotova
Senior Lecturer of the Department of Political Sociology
Russian State University for the Humanities,
6, Miusskaya sq., Moscow, 125993, Russia;
e-mail: zotova1987@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3822-9815
ResearcherID: AAU-5201-2021
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Jinna G. Litinskaya |
Candidate of of Philosophy, Associate Professor
of the Department of Psychology,
Institute of Social Sciences
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy
and Public Administration,
82, Vernadskiy av., Moscow, 119571, Russia
The article presents a comparative analysis of the ideas about the subjectivity of the rehabilitant’s personality in terms of approaches to the treatment of alcoholism used by various temperance movements. Following the definition offered by R.M. Voitenko, the authors use the term «rehabilitant» to denote the an aid recipient in the rehabilitation process. The article compares how the subjectivity of a person undergoing rehabilitation is perceived in traditional narcology, in Alcoholics Anonymous, in the Union of Approval and Preservation of Sobriety «Sober Ural» (Shichko’s methodology), and in the People’s Sobriety Organization of the Sverdlovsk region (Sverdlovsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church). The research focuses on the concept of «subjectivity». A hypothesis is formulated that the conceptual attitude towards a rehabilitant embedded in the paradigm of a particular treatment method directly affects the success of therapy. The hypothesis is based on the socio-philosophical uncertainty that arose around the discussion on the influence of the rehabilitant’s personality and the influence of medicine taken by the rehabilitant during the illness and treatment for alcoholism. The authors draw attention to the problem that the traditional narcological approach causes desubjectification of rehabilitants, which leads to a decrease in the treatment success. At the same time, the practical activities of various temperance movements are also differentiated depending on the paradigm of the rehabilitant’s subjectivity laid down at the ideological level. Using comparative analysis, the authors come to a conclusion that the ideology of some temperance movements is based on the rejection of the rehabilitant’s personal subjectivity in order to form, to a certain extent, the subjectivity of a group, a collective. The theoretical possibility of forming a collective subject allows a new view of the criteria for assessing the effectiveness of addiction treatment and represents a methodological «bridge» to explain the phenomenon of the territories of sobriety.
Keywords: subjectivity, healthy lifestyle, sobriety, subjectivity, temperance movements, anonymous alcoholics, addictive behavior, Shichko method.
Acknowledgements
The article was written in the framework of the RFBR grant № 19-013-00780 «Subjectness as determinant of autodestructive behavior in the modern culture: interdisciplinary approach».
Получена: 01.08.2021. Принята к публикации: 31.08.2021
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Received: 01.08.2021. Accepted: 31.08.2021
For citation:
Zotova V.A., Litinskaya J.G. [The subjectivity of personality in the presentation of sober movements]. Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. Filosofia. Psihologia. Sociologia [Perm University Herald. Philosophy. Psychology. Sociology], 2021, issue 3, pp. 386–394 (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17072/2078-7898/2021-3-386-394