Unconscious behaviors of women with alcohol dependence
https://doi.org/10.23947/2658-7165-2021-4-6-64-75
Abstract
The Introduction reveals the relevance of the problem in terms of the growth of its prevalence. An overview of the causes of alcohol dependence in women is shown. Among the main factors of female alcoholism, researchers distinguish: heredity, peculiarities of metabolism and biochemical reactions of the body of women, emancipation, loneliness, partner influence, etc. Representatives of psychoanalysis associate alcoholism with problems in the sexual sphere. The author points out that psychotraumatic situations form unconscious scenarios of behavior and subsequently may be revealed in a form of addictions, including alcohol. In this regard, in order to successfully solve the problem of female alcoholism, it is necessary to identify its unconscious reasons. For this the author offers to consider this issue from the standpoint of fate analysis determining ancestral unconscious attraction factors.
The novelty of the research consists in determining the origins of the problem of female alcoholism from the standpoints of L. Sondi’s theory of fate analysis and establishing the dominant drives of alcohol addiction in women.
The section "Methods" describes the main methods of empirical research: Sondi test to establish the leading basic attraction determining the behavior of women that leads to alcoholism, method of statistical data processing ‒ Pearson Consent Criterion. The following sample is described: 65 women aged 20–68 years with the first and second stages of alcoholism.
The section "Results" presents the characteristics of the detected basic behavioral tendencies: manic, depressive, catatonic, paranoid manifestations. The results of the mathematical statistics of the obtained data are presented.
In the Discussion of the Results a parallel was drawn between the problems of identifying the causes of alcoholism and eating disorders, the origin of which may be of oral nature. The general tendencies between the revealed basic drives according to the theory of L. Sondi and the stages of psychosexual development according to the theory of Z. Freud are indicated.
The conclusion emphasizes the role of unconscious tendencies in the formation and retention of the problem of alcohol dependence in women
About the Author
A. V. Tsapenko
Don State Technical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alexander V. Tsapenko
Rostov-on-Don
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Tsapenko A.V. Unconscious behaviors of women with alcohol dependence. Innovative science: psychology, pedagogy, defectology. 2021;4(6):64-75. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.23947/2658-7165-2021-4-6-64-75
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