The situations of addiction (drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling, ecc.) bring the individual and their family into a sense of shame, guilt, stigma and silence. Speaking up and ask for help is the first step of a hard and slow journey of awareness and personal rebirth. Autobiographical approach increases self-reflection capacity and gives opportunities to the family members to empatize each other. Writing itself helps the family break the silence in which they take refuge, strengthens the search for meaning, so that they can put the experience they are living into a wider perspective. Stories become a training tool to read inside the family distress caused by addictions. This essay presents the concrete experience of parents that are part of groups of self and mutual help that are facing their sons and daughters’ addictions and that took part into a formative writing class: a relational space where they can bring to surface the deepest and most delicate words that describe the sense of discomfort. The results of the study highlight the power of shared narrations, the revolutionary charge obtained from writing and the amazement in front of the transformational chances that are hidden in the art of storytelling. Parents who deliver their own words, full of suffering, to their children and to the whole community make a valuable contribution to outline a more effective course of education and treatment: it’s like a new birth, for themselves, for their children and for the people who meet them through their stories. In this sense, autobiographical writing highlights his social value: more than a solipsistic exercise, it’s a community practice. While taking care of oneself and developing an inner change, one is indeed disseminating on wide scale these beneficial effects. The parent’s work within the self-help groups is based on the belief that doing something to fight discomfort results, first of all, in giving space and time to think: an autobiographical workshop is a favored tool to make this possible.

Far parola costituisce il passaggio, imprescindibile per innescare un processo lento e impegnativo di consapevolezza e di rinascita. Attraverso la scrittura autobiografica condivisa vengono compiuti alcuni passaggi importanti: si rompe il silenzio in cui la famiglia si rifugia, si irrobustisce la ricerca di senso, si iscrive in un progetto l’esperienza vissuta. Il saggio presenta l’esperienza concreta di genitori di gruppi di auto mutuo aiuto che stanno affrontando le dipendenze dei loro figli e che hanno intrapreso un percorso di scrittura formativa: uno spazio relazionale dove possono dimorare le parole più delicate e profonde del disagio. Il racconto di sé ha permesso di aprire il tempo (Arendt, 1987), trovando uno spazio di distensione dove lasciar emergere le vicende emotivamente intense, gli interrogativi pressanti, i grovigli interiori. Ne emerge la bellezza della narrazione condivisa, lo stupore di fronte alle possibilità trasformative insite nel racconto, ma anche la valenza formativa di alcuni paradossi che l’approccio autobiografico conserva in sé. La scrittura autobiografica, infatti, diviene metodo prezioso per guardare dall’interno i disagi esistenziali e sistemici che le dipendenze portano con sé e maturare sapere esperienziale: i genitori che si sono resi disponibili a raccontare e consegnare la loro esperienza, non solo ai loro figli, ma a quanti li incontreranno attraverso le storie, offrono un prezioso contributo per delineare percorsi educativi e di cura più efficaci e aderenti alla realtà. La rinascita che si sperimenta ha un’onda lunga su tutta la comunità. Il lavoro dei genitori all’interno dei gruppi di auto-mutuo-aiuto è basato sulla convinzione che fare qualcosa per contrastare le forme di disagio vissute dal singolo tossicodipendente e dalla sua famiglia si traduce, innanzitutto, nel darsi tempo e spazio per pensare. In tal senso il laboratorio di scrittura autobiografica è uno strumento privilegiato per rendere possibile tutto ciò.

Augelli, A., Scrivere le dipendenze, costruire spazi di reciprocità: famiglie che si raccontano, <<METIS>>, 2016; VI/numero 1 (06): N/A-N/A [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/99633]

Scrivere le dipendenze, costruire spazi di reciprocità: famiglie che si raccontano

Augelli, Alessandra
2016

Abstract

The situations of addiction (drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling, ecc.) bring the individual and their family into a sense of shame, guilt, stigma and silence. Speaking up and ask for help is the first step of a hard and slow journey of awareness and personal rebirth. Autobiographical approach increases self-reflection capacity and gives opportunities to the family members to empatize each other. Writing itself helps the family break the silence in which they take refuge, strengthens the search for meaning, so that they can put the experience they are living into a wider perspective. Stories become a training tool to read inside the family distress caused by addictions. This essay presents the concrete experience of parents that are part of groups of self and mutual help that are facing their sons and daughters’ addictions and that took part into a formative writing class: a relational space where they can bring to surface the deepest and most delicate words that describe the sense of discomfort. The results of the study highlight the power of shared narrations, the revolutionary charge obtained from writing and the amazement in front of the transformational chances that are hidden in the art of storytelling. Parents who deliver their own words, full of suffering, to their children and to the whole community make a valuable contribution to outline a more effective course of education and treatment: it’s like a new birth, for themselves, for their children and for the people who meet them through their stories. In this sense, autobiographical writing highlights his social value: more than a solipsistic exercise, it’s a community practice. While taking care of oneself and developing an inner change, one is indeed disseminating on wide scale these beneficial effects. The parent’s work within the self-help groups is based on the belief that doing something to fight discomfort results, first of all, in giving space and time to think: an autobiographical workshop is a favored tool to make this possible.
2016
Italiano
Augelli, A., Scrivere le dipendenze, costruire spazi di reciprocità: famiglie che si raccontano, <<METIS>>, 2016; VI/numero 1 (06): N/A-N/A [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/99633]
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