Addictions category: 667 books
Hijacked Brains
The Experience and Science of Chronic Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This book, written from the perspective of a practicing primary care physician, interweaves patients’ stories with fascinating new brain research to show how addictive drugs overtake basic brain functions and transform them to create a chronic illness that is very difficult to treat. The idea that...
Desire
Where Sex Meets Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
We've all felt the giddy flutter of excitement when our new lover walks into the room. Waited by the phone, changed our plans...But are we in love, or is there something darker at work? In Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, Susan Cheever explores the shifting boundaries between the feelings of passion...
Addiction
Why Can't They Just Stop?
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
This companion book to the HBO documentary of the same name sheds light on the hidden American epidemic of addiction. Blending compelling personal narratives with statistics and expert opinion, all gleaned from over two years of research and reporting, ADDICTION offers a comprehensive and provocative...
While You Were Drinking
A Daughter's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
What can a daughter do when the mother she loves is bent on destroying herself? With lyricism and honesty, memoirist Lydia Bird chronicles the unlikely course of her mother’s alcoholism—and the power and limitations of their bond. Through stories spanning four decades and three continents, Bird...
by JessicaRae Pulver-Adell
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Holistic Healing for Addiction: Enlivening Body, Mind and Spirit to Remedy Depression, Anxiety and Self-Hate is a hands-on guide to combat substance use disorders, depression, anxiety, and self hate. Focusing on teaching holistic remedies for before, during, and after rehabilitation, Holistic Healing...
La doppia diagnosi
Il ruolo del discorso psicoanalitico nel trattamento delle nuove patologie
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Questo testo si propone di offrire al lettore una chiave di accesso psicanalitica alla questione dell'uso di sostanze stupefacenti e degli effetti di discorso a partire dall’esperienza clinica maturata nel quotidiano lavoro nei Servizi Sanitari pubblici di “prima linea”, oggi in primis i Ser.T,...
by SmartReads
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Do you struggle with valuing yourself? Are you constantly plagued by feelings of guilt, shame, and low self-esteem? Did your childhood involve abuse and trauma, leaving you filled with bitterness, pain, fear, and self-hate?In this book, you will learn all there is to know about codependency,...
by Tony Bevacqua
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Twelve step programs are the foundation of conventional thinking and treatment for people with addictive behaviors. But are they truly the best? Here, Tony Bevacqua explains why these one-size-fits-all approaches are not appropriate for everyone, since each person is a unique human being.. This book...
Bad habit, How to stop a Habit
Psychological and Physical ideas on how to drop a bad habit
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Dropping a habit has not being so easy, as nature gives, but it is quite possible to do, we are not born with habits, it is something that we develop as we grow, and at a point of time you discover that this thing doesn’t please you any longer for one reason or the other, either that it costs you...
by Neil D. Isaacs
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
As more and more the United States becomes a nation of gamblers, an understanding of the attractions and risks of gambling becomes increasingly important. This study explores its history, its misguided myths, its currency in cultural icons, and the potential pathologies of its practice. What may push...
by Kevin Alderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Breathe Freedom! is a comprehensive stop-smoking program using self-hypnosis. Although smoking is viewed medically as a chronic relapsing condition both psychological and medical research reveals that comprehensive smoking cessation programs boast as high as a 50% success rate after 12 months. Breathe...
Getting Our Bodies Back
Recovery, Healing, and Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1996
A habitual movement as common as nail-biting or toe-tapping can be the key to pulling out addictive behavior by its roots. These unconscious movement "tags" indicate the places where our bodies have become split off from our psyches. When brought to consciousness and confronted they will...
A Woman's Journal
Helping Women Recover
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
In this new edition, Stephanie Covington includes important new evidence-based data and new proven techniques for her unique and exclusive program, as well as new ways to treat trauma and substance abuse, new principles for gender responsive strategies with women offenders, and a new module on sexuality...
by Terence E. Dean
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Within this book we look at an addiction or compulsion more as just a symptom of a deeper disorder rather than the root cause of the problem. So here we will be exploring into the cause which we know as the self. Being aware or understanding what the self is we can see if this "me" can change....