Rephrasing a problem in another sphere of human knowledge is an interesting thing. Especially it’s found when there’s a practical sphere of application. Translating data obtained from the speakers of common language to the terminology of a science is a widespread phenomenon. It’s a key element of sociology (interrogations, questionnaire surveys and then – the information processing) or medicine (anamnesis obtainment). In our case, an alcoholic visiting a psychiatrist with his / her has to undergo some interrogation to translate his /her everyday language to the strict terminology and not just relate about his / her relations with stiff drinks. It’s the terminology that allows doctors to analyze the same problems of alcoholism as a disease, predict its development, offer the possibility of treatment, etc. Speaking further about the problem of the translation of everyday language to the professional tongue does not make sense yet. There’re numerous standardization procedures, questionnaires, scales, etc. We’re going to use them widely when writing our book. Hereby we use the translation of common phrases into professional jargon as a convenient analogy to describe a more complex procedure. We’ve spoken here that alcohol addiction is traditionally considered from the point of view of various sciences and humanities. Moreover, we’ve notices the descriptions are different, but the subject is one for any expert. Another thing is that the professional language often sets invisible limits of the conversion of some research results from one sphere of knowledge to another. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that the psychiatrist doesn’t fully understand the philosopher and the psychologist can’t adequately use sociological constructions. Meanwhile, in our point of view, such a transition is possible and even worthy of description.
We began our analysis using the philosophic jargon we’re used to. We paid much attention to fiction literature reflexions of the ways people drink, get drunk and try to stop drinking at all. Now we’re going to psychological theories. What happens to our addiction then? Of course, nothing happens to it as a natural process. Nevertheless, the perception of and the consideration over it do change. The interpretation scheme may be described with the following configuration.
First of all, by definition, the psychology is a science of the inner world of the human. That’s why our previous words about the “evil world” as a reason to abuse alcohol are made redundant hereby.