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Thinking Aloud

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The world around us is a constant thing for the psychology and, all in all, for any of us. Humans’ lamentations about the evil world are heard more or less often in different cultures. In Eastern Europe as we said before, the voices blaming others in their problems sound especially loudly. Who is right and who’s to blame is a question our neighbors, the Russians try to answer for centuries. This we noted when we were talking about Dostoyevsky/

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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, etco
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How long may such hopscotch last in a book is an open question. Moreover, going ahead I’d tell the relation of a human with the alcohol addiction is always really unique. So, the situation when alcohol is an equal or nearly equal part of a human’s life to every other parts thereof may last long enough. On the other hand, an accurate description of a person’s degradation, decline of social life shall be looked for in clinical psychology and psychiatry, not philosophy, literature or culture. However, as we leave the literature aside we also change our approach. An academic discourse means a problematic approach first of all. The science deals with a problem solution rather than the text esthetics, though the latter is important too. Therefore to get the scholars’ and practicians’ attention the alcohol addiction shall become a problem, something a patient wants to get rid of, but only with some help from the outside.
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However, the wish to find a global force that may help us overcome a galloping addictive desire bumps into an unexpected obstacle, a purely philosophic one. There can be no force like that at all. We live in a world where the life order is a patchwork. Indeed, the mass public no longer takes such things as life aims, a personal devotion mission as imperatives for themselves. It’s a rule, not an exception when a person can quit his or her job that brings no more moral or material satisfaction and almost never feel sorry about it. The clearest description of this spirit of the public life was given by postmodernism philosophy of the 60s.