La libertà come incapacità? Note sulla riabilitazione come esercizio spirituale

Reading the Diagnostic Statistical Manual, the authority on psychiatric disorders, we can trace a very clear trajectory of the representation and conceptualisation of addiction as a mental disorder, towards the exclusion of social and cultural parameters and the consolidation of a stringently neurobiological perspective. Therapeutic interventions, however, such as those in residential communities for addicts, still attribute great importance to the social, relational, and personal dimensions of addiction. Drawing on the Author’s ethnographic fieldwork in one such community, this article aims to explore the articulation of therapeutic practices through the lens of Pierre Hadot’s concept of spiritual exercise, to reflect on the rehabilitation process as a way of remaking one’s subjectivity