title: Ethnosemantic analysis of cognition in the alcoholic patient.
abstract: Ethnosemantic analysis, a research method developed by structural anthropologists and linguists for studying "alien" cognitive domains, would be a useful tool for therapists who treat the alcoholic patient. In this paper a method is developed that would enable a therapist to focus upon aspects of the alcoholic patient's cognitions that are operative in the patient's drinking behavior. Three sorts of objectively derived information are obtained: (1) a list of cognitive factors that threaten the patient's self-concept, (2) a taxonomic sorting of these factors, and (3) a measure of the differential stressfulness of these factors to the patient. All three of these information outputs are semantically produced by the patients themselves.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D010551:Personality; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012649:Self Concept; D013315:Stress, Psychological