Abstract
The study of addictive behavior is especially charged with ideology. The preparation of professionals demands awareness of the “hidden lenses” of ideology and characteristics such as dogmatism and rigidity, oversimplification, reductionism, and dualistic thinking. Emotional investment in ideology to which a student may have converted in life crisis makes it difficult to introduce threatening “heretical” teachings or encourage critical thinking. It may be preferable to use the term culture rather than ideology in processing treatment philosophies in the classroom.
