Street-wise Guide to Coping with and Recovering from Addiction Lefever Robert Paperback
Street-wise Guide to Coping with and Recovering from Addiction Lefever Robert Paperback Everyone 'knows' what addiction is and what should be done for it. The psychology of denial - addicts telling…
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Street-wise Guide to Coping with and Recovering from Addiction Lefever Robert Paperback
Everyone 'knows' what addiction is and what should be done for it. The psychology of denial - addicts telling themselves that they aren't addicted - is the most devastating feature of addiction.This book offers much practical guidance, with reference to entirely anonymised individual experiences. But as this book shows, individual experience cannot apply universally.
It also explains why some approaches do not work.The author contends that there are three causes for addiction: the antecedent cause is probably genetic; the contributory cause is emotional, physical or social trauma leading to a craving for mood-alteration; the precipitant cause is exposure - discovering something that lifts our mood. The entire emphasis of the book is on what works. Treatment, he believes, will therefore also have to be in three phases, in reverse order: abstinence;
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