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guidelines (Mind/Body)
addiction: hologram of an alcoholic
psychospiritual approaches
definition
"The hologram of an alcoholic: When one member of a couple drinks, he deadens certain perceptions, like alcohol itself. In order to live with him, however, the other member must also deaden those perceptions. He is alcohol, and she drinks it and her perceptions die. She in turn becomes like alcohol for him, a perception deadener. We have two people in one process consisting of a drinker and the drink being drunk. The situation flips when the partner of the alcoholic gets angry at the alcoholic, makes a nasty threat, but, like a weakling, never carries the threat to completion. During this phase of the relationship the alcoholic gets very tough and reacts violently. The flip-flop process could be useful, but it usually occurs unconsciously and is therefore hurtful, dangerous, and tragic.
"This process structure can be used at any time with anyone in an altered state. When an alcoholic acts drunk, a schizophrenic mad, a heroin addict stoned, or a suicidal person depressed, only one of their parts is drunk, mad, stoned, or depressed. There is always another part which can be accessed. The entire process behaves in a holographic fashion".
(Mindell, 1988, p. 129)
see:
bodymind psychobiology
body reveals: the spirit
hologram and quantum healing
holographic consciousness
holographic paradigm
process paradigm
quantum healing
search for god
state-dependent learning
subjective inquiry approach
the shadow and physical symptoms
footnotes