Substance Misuse

Cook, C.C.H.

Substance Misuse

Cook, C.C.H.

Authors

Reverend Professor Christopher Cook c.c.h.cook@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy

Contributors

Reverend Professor Christopher Cook c.c.h.cook@durham.ac.uk
Editor

A. Powell
Editor

A. Sims
Editor

Abstract

Substance misuse psychiatry is concerned with what happens when people use psychoactive substances in such a way that they cause harm to themselves and others. It is, therefore, a field of clinical practice and scientific enquiry that is concerned with people’s relationships with themselves and others and the wider order of things, but especially with the object of their ‘addiction’. Necessarily, this engages it with spiritual concerns and in fact the field has a history of engaging with spiritual as well as medical ways of thinking. The definition of spirituality offered in Chapter 1 is one which emerged from a study of the addictions literature.

Citation

Cook, C. (2009). Substance Misuse. In C. Cook, A. Powell, & A. Sims (Eds.), Spirituality and psychiatry (139-168). Royal College of Psychiatrists

Publication Date	Jun 1, 2009
Deposit Date	May 16, 2011
Publicly Available Date	Mar 21, 2013
Publisher	Royal College of Psychiatrists
Pages	139-168
Book Title	Spirituality and psychiatry.
Chapter Number	8
Publisher URL	http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/publications/books/rcpp/9781904671718.aspx

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This is an author-produced electronic version of a chapter published in ' Spirituality and psychiatry' by The Royal College of Psychiatrists. This publication is available from http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/usefulresources/publications/books/rcpp/9781904671718.aspx