WHEN AMERICA was GREAT AGAIN

Leon Dickerson Phd

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When America was Great Again speaks of an America that wasn’t so great for Native Americans, African Americans, and women. Donald J. Trump’s campaign announcement of, “Let’s Make America Great Again,” reawakened the trauma of “The Jim Crow Era” and the America that wasn’t so great for some of us.

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• Lettres et linguistique

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• Publié par: Toplink Publishing, LLC
• Date de parution: 21 janvier 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9781950256242
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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An Autobiographical Study of Chemical Addiction and Personal Recovery-Introducing S.T.E.P.S. for the Treatment of Chemical Depend ency
When Ame rica was G reat Ag ain
Dr. Dickerson, His Dissertation, And God
Leon Dickerson, PhD


Copyright © 2019 by Leon Dickerson, PhD.
Paperback: 978-1-950256-23-5
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NOTE FRO M THE AUTHOR: All names mentioned in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to anyone living or dead is strictly coincidental.
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Contents
Introduc tion
Dr. Dicke rson
Ode To The Black Leaders Of 1967
A gony
Heroin As The Fog
When I Was A “Tom”
Dew D rops
The Pl ague
Sm iles
Brainwashed On The Planta tion
War
What A Beautiful Morning In The Gh etto
The Pimp Of Forty-Second St reet
Whose Love For Loneli ness
Ro nald
Water gate
My Poor Black Mama
From The First To The Sixte enth
PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION WITH COCAINE/CRACK-ADDICTED PER SONS
Introduc tion
Aftercare/Continuing Care Descript ions
Specific Goals Of Continuing Care
Specialized Training And Educational Program System (S.T.E .P.S.)
Hazelden Clinician’s Cat alog
Chapter 1: Paradigms Of Addic tion
Psychoanalytic Approaches The Self-Medication Hypoth esis
Practical Approaches To Chemical Dependency Psychothe rapy
Setting The Stage For S.T.E .P.S.
Rehabilitaion Programs And Components Of Treatment For S.T.E .P.S.
Goals And Objectives Of Inpatient Prog rams
Requirements For Successful Treat ment
Chapter 2: Diagnostic Crit eria
The Counseling Situation And Treatment Plan
Interventions And Components Of Reco very
Chapter 3: Cocaine Addic tion
The Cocaine High (Euph oria)
Progressive Symptoms Of Crack/Cocaine Depend ency
Experimental Use
Recreational Use
A buse
Dependency And Compulsive Use
Crack/Cocaine Depend ency
Theoretical And Conceptual Issues In Crack Addic tion
Special Treatment Problems Posed By Crack Addic tion
Progression Versus Compulsive ness
Crack/Cocaine And The Fa mily
James W., Aftercare Group Me mber
Chapter 4: Relapse Prevention Definitions Of Relapse And Reco very
Reco very
Review Of Outcome Studies Concerning Rel apse
Models Of Relapse Preven tion
Cognitive Behavioral M odel
Coping Skills M odel
Recovery Training And Self-Help Model Aftercare And Continuing Care Prog rams
Relapse Prevention Planning M odel
De nial
Ego Defense Mechan isms
Chapter 5: Review Of Freud’s Topographical Theory Of The Mind
Id, Ego, And Supe rego
Id, Ego, And Superego Prope r Id
Ego
Supe rego
Negative Lifestyle Conseque nces
The Concept Of Addiction From A Topographical Point Of View
Primary Process And The Addict ions
The Shifting Of The Cath exis
Chapter 6: Review Of Severe Consequences Suffered By The Addicted Pe rson
Severe Lifestyle Consequences Suffered By The Addicted Pe rson
Chapter 7: Drug Craving: A Psychodynamic Perspec tive
Drug Crav ings
Drug Cravings As They Relate To Freud’s Topographical Sy stem
Delaying Gratifica tion
Chapter 8: Twelve-Step Programs Social Work Research Study Employing Freudian Concepts Of Id, Ego, And Supe rego
How Alcoholics Anonymous W orks
Twelve-Step Programs As The Superego An Anal ysis
Chapter 9: The Social Work Research Pro ject
Hypoth eses
Methods Research De sign
Group Set ting
Operational Definitions For Dependent Varia bles
Operational Definitions For Independent Varia bles
Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book Study Alcoholics Anony mous
Comparability Of Experimental And Control Gr oups
Treatment Effectiveness Meas ures
Within Group Anal ysis
Discus sion
Limitat ions
Implicat ions
Future Rese arch
Specialized Training And Educational Program System S.T.E .P.S.
Freudian Concepts Of Id, Ego, And Supe rego
Group Pro cess
Ego And Supe rego
SPECIALIZED TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM SYSTEM S.T.E .P.S.
Fore word
Chapter 1: Dna, Life, And God
Chapter 2: God Creates By His Word
Chapter 3: And God Formed Man Out Of The Dust Of The Gr ound
Chapter 4: In His Own I mage
Chapter 5: The Miracles Of Jesus Ch rist
Chapter 6: You Must Be Born A gain
Refere nces
About The Au thor


Introduction
DR. DICKE RSON
When Donald J. Trump announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States of America, I didn’t believe he had any chances of winning. Then he invented the slogan, “LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” At campaign rallies his political base wore those red baseball caps, and we will never forget loud chants of, “Let’s put Hillary in jail” backed up with “LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” Mr. Trump and I are about the same age so, when I first heard “LET’S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” I knew the America they were referring to wasn’t my American experi ence.
The America I grew up in is best described in Michael Harrington’s masterpiece, The Other America first published in 1962. Mr. Harrington brilliantly brought attention to the lives of the poor and the social forces that consigned them to their fate in the United States of America, the land of plenty. I grew up under an umbrella of terror ushered in by what has become known as the Jim Crow Era. Jim Crow was a period when African Americans were denied their rights to vote in a democracy, and some lost their lives for exercising their rights to do so. I grew up in an America where the Ku Klux Klan has been a source of terror and a constant theme of unrest in and on the minds of black people since it was founded in 1865.
I conceived the idea to write an autobiography in 1994 at my graduation where I received the Doctorate Degree in Clinical Social Work from New York University. James Earl Jones gave the commencement speech for the graduating class of Social Workers. Sitting there among the graduates listening to James Earl Jones expound on the virtues of, “giving back” and “social responsibility,” I was able, for the first time recognize how far I had come. The broken home, poverty, street life, and drug addiction. My new title of Dr. Leon Dickerson in American society would conceal my past and wipe away any suspicion that I was a social victim like thousands of African Americans struggling to escape the misery of ghetto life. I decided not to let America off the hook so easily. Dr. Dickerson, His Dissertation, and God are about a little boy who survived childhood in a broken home, a young man who gave up drugs and alcohol, and a desperate man who accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Sa vior.
There are three separate sections in the book that together permits the reader to embark on a journey into the mind and experiences of an individual desperately seeking acceptance in society so hostile to his exist ence.
HIS DISSERTA TION
I first applied Freudian concepts to chemical abusers in the form of a psycho-educational presentation in 1985 at an outpatient clinic where I was employed as a social worker. Due to the high census at the center, the groups were large having anywhere from twenty-five to forty patients on a given day. Large groups made it difficult to process individuals concerns and address their comments in the time allotted. One day out of frustration I decided to share with this large group of alcoholics and substance abusers the story of Sigmund Freud. Earlier that month I attended a presentation on Freud’s Topographical Theory. I came away wondering if these concepts could be directly applied to the chemical dependency format to motivate patients to attend twelve-step meetings. It became clear to me that psychological aspects of addiction were related to a malfunction of the personality based on an impaired ego or superego. I presented a simple drawing to this population (see figure #1 on page 203) simplifying Freudian concepts regarding the Id, Ego, and Superego, and to my amazement patients reported that they attended Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous Twelve-Step Meetings regularly due to this “new” information. Based on this “new” knowledge these patients were now able to negotiate between fantasy and reality when besieged by a strong craving to use drugs and alcohol. They now realized that if the negative consequences of addictive behavior were to stop, then the twelve-step program (Superego) had to be embraced so that the child (Id) could be brought under subjec tion.
As part of my doctoral dissertation, I began teaching Freudian concepts at an outpatient clinic to patients addicted to crack/cocaine, alcohol, and other chemicals in 1990. In August 1992, I applied Freudian theory (Id, Ego, and Superego) to my Tuesday Aftercare Group and continued to provide traditional acc