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February 2008 
Research (b)log
Posted on May 3rd, 2007
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Durwin
Durwin
My dissertation research will look at what hopefully will be a novel intervention for individuals suffering from substance use disorders. The intervention will be integrally-informed. I am experimenting with blogging some parts of my thinking about my research as I develop it.
My research question has three parts at the moment:
1) What sort of objective change is produced in participants in this 8-week group-based process?
2) What is the lived experience of individuals as they go through the process?
3)What is the relationship between the level of development of participants and their lived experience and/or outcomes of the intervention?
More to come...
My research question has three parts at the moment:
1) What sort of objective change is produced in participants in this 8-week group-based process?
2) What is the lived experience of individuals as they go through the process?
3)What is the relationship between the level of development of participants and their lived experience and/or outcomes of the intervention?
More to come...
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Great proposal, in that it concretizes the concepts. Here you can observe, isolate and define. There’s a lot of challenge here, but within an arena that is managable.
A naive question: If levels of development mature over lifetimes, then even if I get a good handle on my addiction, will I still be at the same developmental level but maybe at a more effective position in it? Or do I somehow “go up” a level? How can we observe maturation in this frame? Oh this is good! It’s a real challenge for me to come up with how to phrase the questions so that they are even making sense and not babbling! I do like this setup! Good luck with this!
Hi Martha: Nice to connect with you again – it's been a while…mostly because I haven't been blogging much lately…to answer your question, I think that in my research the focus would be to see about the relationship between levels of development and other aspects of what happens – I don't think I will see any shift in levels. The timeframe for changes in levels is years, not months. So, yes, a person could become completely healed from their addiction, and all of this simply has meant a translative change, not transformative, in the technical sense. In integral psychotherapy, in my understanding, we never try to have people transform – we simply aim for healthy translation, so that the transformation process, of necessity slow, can proceed relatively unimpeded.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to reflect on this.
BTW, you may want to check out the integral scholars forum that Katie H, a Harvard student also here on Zaadz (somewhere) as started. If you go to Google Groups and search for Integral Scholars, you should find us.
Cheers,
Durwin
Very cool Durwin, I look forward to getting sneak peaks into snippits of your research.
Addictions is a really interesting area to look at integrally! Props to you.
Just curious, are you aware that Marco Morelli is co-writing a piece on integral approaches to addictions? You probably are, but just thought I'd check.
Much Love, V.
Thanks, Vanessa, for thinking of me – yes, I have made contact with John Dupuy who is the lead author on that paper.