Addictions category: 667 books
Stronger
(What Doesn’t Kill You) An Addict’s Mom’s Guide to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Find The Love, Patience, and Insight to Take Your Life Back What does it look and feel like to be a Mother of an Addict? How does a Mother’s unconditional love help her child’s addiction? Sandy Sherman is a Mother of 2 addicts – a Daughter and a Son. For 5 years she felt her life was spiraling...
The Anatomy of Addiction
What Science and Research Tell Us About the True Causes, Best Preventive Techniques, and Most Successful Treatments
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A groundbreaking, science-based approach to addiction that addresses it as the chronic brain disease it is and offersa proven lifelong treatment plan.
In The Anatomy of Addiction, readers will discover information and advice on:
- normal vs. problem drinking
- new medications that are now available
-...
Principles of Addiction
Comprehensive Addictive Behaviors and Disorders, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Principles of Addiction provides a solid understanding of the definitional and diagnostic differences between use, abuse, and disorder. It describes in great detail the characteristics of these syndromes and various etiological models.
The book's three main sections examine the nature of addiction,...
Natural Rest for Addiction
A Radical Approach to Recovery Through Mindfulness and Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Freedom from addiction is available in the one place that’s the most difficult for an addict to be—the present moment. In Natural Rest for Addiction, non-duality teacher and addiction specialist Scott Kiloby offers his Natural Rest program for finding recovery from substance abuse—and addictions...
Love Junkie
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Rachel Resnick hits her forties single, broke, depressed, and childless. Looking back over years of failed relationships, she identifies a lifelong addiction to love-an addiction to the unfulfilled fantasy of romantic bliss, marriage, and family, and to a string of sexual relationships that only carry...
Narrative Means to Sober Ends
Treating Addiction and Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Working with clients who abuse drugs or alcohol poses formidable challenges to the clinician. Addicted persons are often confronting multiple, complex problems, from the denial of the addiction itself, to legacies of early trauma or abuse, to histories of broken relationships with parents, spouses,...
Music and Altered States
Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addictions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
This international collection examines the opportunities for using music-induced states of altered consciousness to promote physical and mental healing, treat substance dependence, and in spiritual and palliative care.
The contributors describe the successful use of altered states and their...
Holistic Rehab Therapies
Are Alternative Addiction Treatments Helpful, Harmful, or Head Games? (A Penguin Special from Viking)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Anne M. Fletcher is a trusted medical writer and the bestselling author of eight books. Her most recent, Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment—and How to Get Help That Works Inside Rehab, documents what works and what doesn’t when it comes to treatment for drug and alcohol...
The Therapeutic Community
Theory, Model, and Method
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2000
This volume provides a comprehensive review of the essentials of the Therapeutic Community (TC) theory and its practical "whole person" approach to the treatment of substance abuse disorders and related problems. Part I outlines the perspective of the traditional views of the substance abuse...
by Andrew Brottvick
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
When the needs of a struggling and drug-addicted community are pitted against the economic interests of a city, the outcome is rarely in question. Money wins. In The Transparent Temple, a determined group of recovering addicts are hoping to be the exception to that rule, bringing focus, understanding,...
Behavioral Addiction
Screening, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Written in scientific prose that can also be understood by the layperson, this comprehensive volume is a must-read for those working in the addiction field and anyone interested in learning more about this devastating disease.
An-Pyng Sun, PhD, is a professor at the University of Nevada, Las...
Transforming Addiction
Gender, Trauma, Transdisciplinarity
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Choice Highly Recommended Read
Addiction is a complex problem that requires more nuanced responses. Transforming Addiction advances addictions research and treatment by promoting transdisciplinary collaboration, the integration of sex and gender, and issues of trauma and mental health. The...
Love over Lust
How Love Overcame the Power of Sexual Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2000
We all fall in love. We make a lifetime commitment. We work through lifes ups and downs. But how do we cope with the discovery that our mate has lost his/her soul to the consuming power of multiple addictions? How do we survive the ultimate pain that accompanies sexual addiction?
Love Over...
How Smoking Cigarette Can Impacts You!
Discover The Easiest Ways To Quit Smoking And Eliminate Smoking Addictions To Refresh Your Body System Fast.
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The question is why do individuals begin smoking? What prompt then to start smoking? What are the effects to smoking? How can this smoking addition be stop?
The beginning part is that some individuals begin smoking because they think it's something cool and their friends are impressed. They...