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Addictive Thinking, Second Edition: Understanding Self-Deception

Abraham J. Twerski

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Addictive thought is inherently self-deceptive, yet offers a superficial logic that can be misleading to the addict as well as to the addict's family members.

Abnormal thinking in addiction was originally recognized by members of Alcoholics Anonymous, who coined the term "stinking thinking." Addictive thinking often appears rational, but only on a superficial level. Addicts, as well as their family members, are easily seduced by the attendant--and erroneous--reasoning process it can foster.

In Addictive Thinking, author Abraham Twerski reveals how self-deceptive thought can undermine self-esteem and threaten the sobriety of a recovering individual. This timely revision of the original classic includes updated information and research on depression and affective disorders, the relationship between addictive thinking and relapse, and the origins of addictive thought. Ultimately, Addictive Thinking offers hope to those seeking a healthy and rewarding life in recovery.

Dr. Twerski is founder and medical director of the Gateway Rehabilitation Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A rabbi, psychiatrist, and chemical dependency counselor, he is the author of numerous journal articles and books including Self Discovery in Recovery, I Didn't Ask to be in This Family: Sibling Relationships and How They Shame Adult Behavior and Dependencies, and with "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schulz, When Do the Good Things Start?

Perfect Daughters (Revised Edition)

Robert J. Ackerman

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This new edition of Perfect Daughters, a pivotal book in the ACoA movement, identifies what differentiates the adult daughters of alcoholics from other women.

When this groundbreaking book first appeared over ten years ago, Dr. Ackerman identified behavior patterns shared by daughters of alcoholics. Adult daughters of alcoholics-"perfect daughters" -operate from a base of harsh and limiting views of themselves and the world. Having learned that they must function perfectly in order to avoid unpleasant situations, these women often assume responsibility for the failures of others. They are drawn to chemically dependent men and are more likely to become addicted themselves. More than just a text that identifies these behavior patterns, this book collects the thoughts, feelings and experiences of twelve hundred perfect daughters, offering readers an opportunity to explore their own life's dynamics and thereby heal and grow.

This edition contains updated information throughout the text, and completely new material, including chapters on eating disorders and abuse letters from perfect daughters in various stages of recovery, and helpful, affirming suggestions from Dr. Ackerman at the end of every chapter. This book is essential for every one who found validation, hope, courage and support in the pages of the original Perfect Daughters, as well as new readers and every therapist who confronts these issues.

Also includes: a comprehensive reference section and complete index.

Overcoming Bulimia: Your Comprehensive, Step-By-Step Guide to Recovery (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

Randi E., Ph.D. McCabe, Traci L., Ph.D. McFarlane, Marion P., Ph.D. Olmstead

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Severe dieting often results in periods of reactive binge eating. a phenomenon experienced by one in twenty American women. Responses to these periods may include prolonged fasting, self-induced vomiting, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, and obsessive exercise: all symptoms of bulimia. This workbook contains tools to help bulimics break the cycle of bingeing and reacting, allowing them to take control of their lives and make positive behavior changes. Use it to recognize the symptoms of bulimia, its causes, and the health risks it poses. Then work through the exercises to normalize eating and deal with the issues that underlie the symptoms. Take control of your recovery process with checklists, self-monitoring assessments, and thought diaries. Practical advice and real-life examples reinforce attitudes and offer encouragement. Discover that it is possible to overcome your disorder and live a happier, more fulfilling life.

This comprehensive guide covers everything from bulimia's symptoms, causes, and risks to how to normalize eating, shift eating-disordered thoughts, build on personal strengths, improve self-esteem, deal with underlying issues, prevent relapse, and understand what medications can help. With many real-life examples, this book also helps readers learn through the experiences of other sufferers how to overcome their disorder and live a happier, more fulfilled life.

Chemical Dependency: A Systems Approach (3rd Edition)

C. Aaron McNeece, Diana M. DiNitto

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Chemical Dependency 1 out of 5 stars.
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Never received the product. I attempted to make contact with provider, Kokiewhip, but have yet to hear from them. I wish to cancel my order.

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Substance abusers affect everyone they come into contact with, and state and federal policies regarding substance control seem to change constantly. This book takes a comprehensive look at substance abuse from a systems perspective, which makes it particularly appropriate for social workers who are accustomed to a "person-in-environment" perspective. This book covers all the major theories of addiction, as well as the major psychological and physiological results of substance abuse, including fetal alcohol syndrome. Social workers, therapists, drug and alcohol counselors.

Drugs Across the Spectrum (with InfoTrac )

Raymond Goldberg

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Considered the most comprehensive drug text on the market, Goldberg's four-color text encourages readers to examine the motivation for drug use, social implications of drug use, legal ramifications, and factors affecting how drugs interact with the human body. It provides a look at the history and culture surrounding drug use and abuse, key information regarding specific types of drugs, and a review of drug treatment, education, and prevention approaches and programs. DRUGS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM, FIFTH EDITION also includes a number of resources to support active learning, both in and out of the classroom. From the JoinIn™ on TurningPoint® in-class lecture tool to the support of critical thinking with the new "Fact or Fiction" boxes and popular "Thinking Critically" boxes, students are engaged and educated about the topics and issues related to drugs in society.

When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy (Plume)

Geneen Roth

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Another great book by Geneen Roth! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I highly respect the work done by Geneen Roth - helping others overcome eating disorders and sharing bits of her own life experiences with us through her writings comforts us in knowing she has 'been there, done that.' She knows what she is talking about. I had heard of 'emotional eating' for a long time but always denied I had any type of intimate relationship with food, but over the past 3 years, going through highly stressful times and gaining 30 pounds in the process, I finally realized one day as I was eating my way through a bag of chips knowing that I shouldn't but feeling totally helpless, I realized that I was treating food as a long-lost-love-of-my-life. I can start a diet on any given day, but rest-assured by lunch time I 'miss' my regular junk so bad that I revert back to my not-so-healthy ways of eating. So I put the chips aside and looked up emotional eating on line and found so much about Geneen Roth and realized she's the one with the great articles in magaizines I've been reading for so long! So I order this book and within a few days I had read it all and had a greater understanding of how I'm using food to shove down my emotions. Instead of turning to people to share my emotions with I turn to food, because food will not reject me and food doesn't care how bad I'm feeling, it is there when I need it and distracts me from the stress in my life. I've never before been able to put into words my unhealthy, unbreakable relationship with food. This book doesn't offer a lot of 'advice' on how to deal with those emotions (I think she has another book for that I'm going to find and read)...but it is all about helping us understand our emotional selves better and our need for good social relationships and not to replace it with a food relationship or some other self-destructive pattern like drugs or alcohol. The first step is admitting/recognizing what the problem is...and this book has helped me do that. And so far since I have read this book I am overcoming my own emotional scars and using food for nourishment and healing instead of using food to comfort me or help me cope (that's what people are for!). Loving myself and being good to myself instead of abusing my body with food. I've always heard that losing weight "is not about the food". Now I really believe it. It's not about will-power or self control. It's about being mentally present and in the moment about what goes on in our minds, instead of mindlessly eating through a bag of chips or a carton of ice-cream or a whole bag of marshmallows. Thanks Geneen! Looking forward to reading more from you!

Why Weight? A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating

Geneen Roth

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has changed my attitudes toward myself and toward food 5 out of 5 stars.
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Roth has created a wonderful, insightful compilation of exercises which, when combined with a lot of hard work on your part, can change your life. She will change your feelings about yourself and about why you eat. The exercises take a long time to get through because they are so emotionally demanding, but it is a worthwhile process. If you are ready to take a hard look at what really motivates you to open your cupboard, and examine those dark feelings you hide even from yourself, buy this book.

A Life-Transforming Experience 5 out of 5 stars.
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Having struggled with an eating disorder for the past 10 years of my life, I was certain that I would never have a healthy relationship with food again. But, then a good friend gave me Geneen's book, and I have not looked back since on those doubtful thoughts. This is a truely incredible program that, when followed and supplemented with Geneen's books "When Food Is Love" and "Feeding the Hungry Heart", can and will take the word "diet" out of your vocabularly forever. I have never felt better about myself and have never actually lost weight while still eating anything I wanted.

Intervention: How to Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help

Vernon E. Johnson

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Intervention: How to Help someone Who Doesn't Want Help 5 out of 5 stars.
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Outstanding. A huge help. A must read for anyone with an alcoholic in the family.

Was hoping for better 3 out of 5 stars.
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I was looking for a book that would help with a family intervention for health issues. I found this book some what helpful; it did outline the mechanics of the process in the second half of the book. The first half was primarily about the psychology of a substance abuser.

Intervention 4 out of 5 stars.
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Thsi was helpful to read to understand brain disease and Chemical dependency and then great for understanding the best way to stage an intervention for a loved one who won't help themselves.

Easy read 4 out of 5 stars.
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Read this book really quickly prior to a family intervention. Easy read, gives the reader a basic understanding of chemical dependency and how to intervene.

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Johnson Institute

Helping those who don't want help.

In Intervention: How To Help Someone Who Doesn't Want Help, Dr. Vernon Johnson describes the process that has successfully motivated thousands of chemically dependent people to accept help. In simple terms, this book shows how chemical dependency affects those around the addicted person, and teaches concerned people how to help and how to do it right.

Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin

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Highly analytical, relevant and a record of reality...... 5 out of 5 stars.
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I purchased PIHKAL from Amazon and read it in it's entirety.

The most poignant aspect of this book reveals that as we are organic machines, our consciousness is just another chemically induced perception and therefore only one valid reality predisposed by evolution for survival.

Shulgin's Genius is honed with such objectivity, innocence, dedication and clarity that he is able to both successfuly and interestingly document the human-mind altering effects produced by the synthesised compounds entirely dedicated to the second-half of this book.

Furthermore, I have read all of the Amazon reviews regarding PIHKAL and feel that some just do not get the extreme depth of this work. Reading this incredibly open account of Human reality means that there will always be dull bits and parts that make one cringe because that's how real life is for one and all.

The potential reader needs to approach this work with an open mindset and absorb the content without pretence, preconception or professional envy affecting clarity because this book is about the other side of the coin.

Finally, to dedicate ones life to recording Human perception so openly in hardcopy is a tremendous quantum leap ahead of the absurd revisionist realities that people in our "Soap World" prefer to pretend that they live via TV and use to deal with personal issues through the application of anger, violence and greed which are wrongly accepted as legitimate relief mechanisms.

In summary, PIHKAL is an extremely important piece in the Jigsaw of the "age of reason" and awareness. Don't be threatened, it definitely deserves at least "5 Stars". Read it, do it and get to the next level...... the evolution of mind.

Drug Use and Abuse: A Comprehensive Introduction

Howard Abadinsky

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Current and insightful, the up-to-date Sixth Edition of Howard Abadinsky's DRUG USE AND ABUSE: A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION offers an interdisciplinary, comprehensive survey of all aspects of the drug and alcohol abuse issue, including the impact of drugs on our society; their history and the pharmacological impact of drugs on the body; drug policy implications; the criminal justice system response; the effects, treatment, and prevention of abuse; theories of use; the drug business; and drug law enforcement.