Abstract
E. Summerson Carr's chapter on denial and self-talk as therapeutic tools adroitly brings the reader into the philosophy and goals of psychotherapy as they are practiced in drug treatment centers, raising important questions about the nature of denial, and the potential of encouraging positive self-talk to achieve the goals of drug treatment. In her final chapter on the disciplinary stakes in current approaches to addiction and the "war on drugs," A. Jamie Saris invokes the issue that has pervaded discussion in most of the other chapters: the view that drug addiction represents a "failure of the will" versus the disease model of addiction.
