When I first arrived in Vancouver some thirty years ago, I probably patronized this place myself. More seasoned entrepreneurial drunks and addicts offer to hold the diners’ places in line, save their parking spots, watch their cars.Īs I round a familiar corner, loud, thumping music drifts from a club. My cloak of invisibility finally seems to be working. They glance in my direction but my presence barely registers. Well-heeled diners sidestep massive puddles and run the gauntlet of shopping carts to line up in front of the latest hot restaurant. Gentrification has crept into Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Reviewsįrom Chapter Six: Come Down Here, Mr. Maureen Palmer is a critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker and former radio and television producer at CBC. He earned a degree in psychiatric nursing from the University of Victoria and a Masters in Social Work from the University of British Columbia. Michael Pond has a private therapy practice in Vancouver, where he specializes in addiction treatment. Not one to give up easily, he, along with his partner, Maureen Palmer, embarked on a quest for evidence-based treatments-science-backed therapies that don’t always demand abstinence-a search chronicled in the book’s new second half. In the first part of his gripping memoir, he recounts how he lost his practice, his home, and his family as a result of his out-of-control drinking and how abstinence-based treatment regimes failed to help him. Psychotherapist Mike Pond built a life helping others struggling with addiction, but he could not help himself. Marc Lewis, neuroscientist and author of Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
A masterful job of describing the indescribable”-Dr. And then reveals a singular truth about how people quit. “With tactile intimacy and surgical wit, Pond invites us to share the tragedy of his addiction with a sad smile. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.A harrowing, wry, and riveting account of a therapist's struggle with alcohol and his quest to find a better way of treating addiction These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. As processes of modernization have become truly globalized, as the ‘totality of human production and consumption has become money and market mediated, and the processes of the commodification, commercialization and monetarization of human livelihoods have penetrated every nook and cranny of the globe’, then the ‘ crisis of the human waste disposal industry’ (emphasis in original) has become more acute.
These modernization processes can, largely, be understood in terms of the colonization of all aspects of life, of all spaces and places by market forces, practices and processes under regimes of capital accumulation. 5–6) argues that this redundancy is a consequence of the global spread and triumph of modernisation processes: ‘The production of “human waste” … (the “excessive” and “redundant”, that is the population of those who either could not or were not wished to be recognized or allowed to stay), is an inevitable outcome of modernization’. In Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts, Bauman (2004, pp. Zygmunt Bauman, the influential sociologist of liquid modernity, argues that at the start of the twenty-first century large numbers of people around the globe - hundreds of millions, in fact - are surplus to requirements, are, indeed, redundant.
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