Скачать или смотреть ADDICTION Psychologist Reviews MATTHEW PERRY'S Memoir - Gives Him a B- | Cohost Grades LOWER

Matthew Perry’s new Memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” is part ‘standard recovery’ story and part a commonsense, instructive life narrative.

Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads review the memoir and assign it a letter grade at the end of the segment. Both Stanton and Zach are walking a razor’s edge in reviewing the memoir.

On one hand, AA’s “Big Book” thumpers will hate that they have no patience for the fact that Perry attended (and “failed”) 15 rehab programs for drugs and alcohol— leaving him with the $9 million tab! And they will especially hate that Zach and Stanton point out the crucial and more salient aspects of Perry’s mature and balanced adult life (and movement away from relying on drugs): Namely,

Purpose (actor / athlete / social life)

Skills (talented actor, personable, introspective, industrious)

Resources (not everyone is born into affluence or worth $120 million, but Perry takes full advantage if the resources at his disposal and uses them constructively)

Values (did you know that Perry has always set parameters for himself, even in the throes of addiction? In fact, he had a rule: never work on the set of friends drunk or high. HOW DID HE DO THAT while also being “powerless to his disease?”)

Maturity (at this point in his life, Perry enjoys his social networks, working, taking care of his health, and he is still looking for the right person to settle down with.)

AND, on the other hand, the anti-12 step crowd will hate that Peele and Rhoads are encouraging of so many elements of Perry’s memoir. Afterall, Perry (perhaps accidentally) details his own life process and describes overcoming many hurdles in achieving a productive life.

Perry’s own story actually fundamentally contradicts 12-step and disease ideology on many levels, despite his evangelizing for 12-step rehabs and drug courts.

Later in the episode, Stanton explains emails that he gets from the MOUD (medication for opioid use disorder) crowd. These are people who say, “Hey Stanton — you’re not a 12-step guy, you must love the concept of MOUD. Perry should have used these medications up front and he would have been fine ages ago.” As Zach points out, these people are like the characters in Carl Sagan’s story who live in two dimensions and cannot fathom a third.

The third dimension in this case means:

“No matter the specific therapeutic or medical technique that people use to overcome addiction, they must ultimately consider their own values and lives, and how they want to improve, using the resources at their disposal.”

Hence: LIFE PROCESS PROGRAM.

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