Alexander, B. (2008)

Alexander, B. (2008). ''The globalization of addiction. A study in poverty of the spirit.'' Oxford University Press.

•	(58) "‘Psychosocial integration’ is a profound interdependence between individual and society that normally grows and develops throughout each person’s lifespan. Psychosocial integration reconciles people’s vital needs for social belonging with their equally vital needs for individual autonomy and achievement. Psychosocial integration is as much an inward experience of identity and meaning as a set of outward relationships. An enduring lack of psychosocial integration, which is called ‘dislocation’ in this book, is both individually painful and socially destructive. ... Psychosocial integration is experienced as a sense of identity, because stable social relationships provide people with a set of duties and privileges that define who they are in their mind."

•	(64) “Although only dislocated people become addicted, many severely dislocated people live and die in ways that cannot be called ‘addiction’ ... Many of them ‘get by’...”

•	(85) "The first principle of the dislocation theory of addiction is that psychosocial integration is an essential part of human well-being, and that dislocation ... is excruciatingly painful."

•	(99) "The second principle of the dislocation theory of addiction is that globalisation of free-market society produces a general breakdown of psychosocial integration."

•	(153) "The third principle of the dislocation theory of addiction is that people use addiction as a way of adapting to sustained dislocation."

•	(160) “Natural recovery frequently entails the adoption of a new way of living or a period of reorientation to a familiar, non-addictive lifestyle. This reorientation is often aided by the addicted person’s family or close friends and by the supportive institutions of their culture with little or no involvement of addiction professionals.” “essential role of family, friends, and society”

•	(241) “fanatical devotion to socially destructive ideas can be a desperate attempt to adapt to severe dislocation”

•	(271) "Some people manage to create fulfilling, psychosocially integrated lives, even in the most dislocated of modern societies. ... The larger number of people who manage to live without visible addictions might better be described as ‘getting by’."

•	(271) “Ways of ‘getting by’ or coping with a dislocated society are ... (1) resolute conventionality, (2) resolute unconventionality, (3) participating in a concocted community, (4) political activism, (5) the ‘tragically cool’, and (7) the ex-addict”