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Author : Anne Wilson Schaef
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 1988-04-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0062548549
An incisive look at the system of addiction pervasive in Western society today.
Author : Anne Wilson Schaef
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0062291106
An incisive look at the system of addiction pervasive in Western society today.
Author : Anne Wilson Schaef
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0062276034
Schaef applies the addictions of sex, love, romance, and relationships to her broader addiction theory and clearly defines and contrasts the relationship addictions.
Author : Johann Hari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1620408929
The New York Times Bestseller What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix. One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three years to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their own war on drugs--with extraordinary results. Chasing the Scream is the story of a life-changing journey that transformed the addiction debate internationally--and showed the world that the opposite of addiction is connection.
Author : Marc Lewis
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1610394380
Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease. But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing. Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it's supposed to do-seek pleasure and relief-in a world that's not cooperating. As a result, most treatment based on the disease model fails. Lewis shows how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery. This is enlightening and optimistic reading for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.
Author : Anne M. Fletcher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0143124366
An essential guide to finding the right recovery program from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sober for Good Drawing on extensive research, including visits to fifteen addiction treatment programs and interviews with more than two hundred clients and professionals in the field, trusted health and medical writer Anne M. Fletcher offers indispensable advice for people seeking quality care for themselves or a loved one. She reveals the ways in which our addiction treatment industry is broken, highlights what is working, and shares insights about how the experience could be more effective. Fletcher sheds light on the science-based practices that should form the basis of treatment, spotlights programs and professionals using those practices, and provides a much-needed guide to different types of treatment and finding quality care when it’s needed.
Author : Gabor Maté, MD
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1583944206
A “thought-provoking and powerful” study that reframes everything you’ve been taught about addiction and recovery—from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Myth of Normal (Bruce Perry, author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog). A world-renowned trauma expert combines real-life stories with cutting-edge research to offer a holistic approach to understanding addiction—its origins, its place in society, and the importance of self-compassion in recovery. Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with people with addiction on Vancouver’s skid row, this #1 international bestseller radically re-envisions a much misunderstood condition by taking a compassionate approach to substance abuse and addiction recovery. In the same vein as Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts traces the root causes of addiction to childhood trauma and examines the pervasiveness of addiction in society. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout—and perhaps underpins—our society. It is not a medical “condition” distinct from the lives it affects but rather the result of a complex interplay among personal history, emotional and neurological development, brain chemistry, and the drugs and behaviors of addiction. Simplifying a wide array of brain and addiction research findings from around the globe, the book avoids glib self-help remedies, instead promoting a thorough and compassionate self-understanding as the first key to healing and wellness. Dr. Maté argues persuasively against contemporary health, social, and criminal justice policies toward addiction and how they perpetuate the War on Drugs. The mix of personal stories—including the author’s candid discussion of his own “high-status” addictive tendencies—and science with positive solutions makes the book equally useful for lay readers and professionals.
Author : Bruce Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199588716
Addiction is increasing all around the world, and the conventional remedies don't work. The Globalization of Addiction argues that the cause of this failure to control addiction is that past treatments have focused too single-mindedly on the afflicted individual addict. This book presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction.
Author : June Ariano-Jakes
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780986701320
Addiction: A Mother's Story follows the 23 year heroin and cocaine addiction of her deeply loved son through the eyes of his mother. It includes stories of all the various "players" that make up the world of drug use and the dramatic consequences of drug addiction within a family.
Author : Anne Wilson Schaef
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0062283421
Schaef and Fassel show how managers, workers, and organization members exhibit the classic symptoms of addiction: denying and avoiding problems, assuming that there is no other way of acting, and manipulating events to maintain the status quo.