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'The Useful Lie'
: :We are living in a time when misconduct is often treated by medical doctors and counselors as 'disease.' Stealing, lying, infidelity, overeating, anger and the like are viewed and medically treated as illnesses. Now a medical doctor esposes the myths, shows how the 'Recovery Industry' is unscientific, and offers real hope for those who are addicted.
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Nurturing the Nurse on the Path to Success
: :We are living in a time when misconduct is often treated by medical doctors and counselors as 'disease.' Stealing, lying, infidelity, overeating, anger and the like are viewed and medically treated as illnesses. Now a medical doctor esposes the myths, shows how the 'Recovery Industry' is unscientific, and offers real hope for those who are addicted.
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Recovery from Co-Dependency: It's Never Too Late to Reclaim Your Childhood
: :Recovery From Co-dependency:It's Never Too Late To Reclaim Your Childhoodby Laurie Weiss and Jonathan B. Weiss This book may be used as a map for therapists and Adult Children on the road to recovery from Co-Dependency. Developmental issues are addressed, patterns of substitute behavior are identified and a treatment plan to meet the needs of the Inner Child is created. Adult Children are in the position of trying to manage their adult lives on the basis of decisions made by mistreated children. Sometimes the pain of carrying out these life-repressing ...
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Choices... You Chose Them (Get Your Self Straight)
: :Recovery From Co-dependency:It's Never Too Late To Reclaim Your Childhoodby Laurie Weiss and Jonathan B. Weiss This book may be used as a map for therapists and Adult Children on the road to recovery from Co-Dependency. Developmental issues are addressed, patterns of substitute behavior are identified and a treatment plan to meet the needs of the Inner Child is created. Adult Children are in the position of trying to manage their adult lives on the basis of decisions made by mistreated children. Sometimes the pain of carrying out these life-repressing ...
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On Being a Shit: Unkind Deeds and Cover-Ups in Everyday Life
: :A humorous look at a serious topic of how people cover up unkind deeds. Getting others to believe it is their fault is the crowning achievement of being a shit. If you have ever asked, 'Is it me?' or 'Oh, no, what did I do?' this book is for you. Through stories, Jane Gilgun develops principles that readers can apply to their own lives. In this book, you will learn that no one can succeed at being a shit without your consent. Learn how to outwit those who want to ...
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The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity)
: :Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: when does the nurturing behavior expected of a good wife and mother become part of a pattern of behavior that is actually destructive? How does the celebration of nurturance and dependency mask the exploitative aspects not just of family life ...
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Shared Confinement: Healing Options for You and the Agoraphobic in Your Life
: :Agoraphobia is an abnormal fear of open or public places, and agoraphobics are typically terrified to leave their homes. Psychologist Robert Chope provides strategies to help relatives of agoraphobics assess the degree to which they have sacrificed their lives to a loved one's fears. Exercises and case studies allow readers to understand codependency and determine whether their behavior is actually exacerbating the agoraphobic's problem.
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Playing Grown-Up Is Serious Business: Breaking Free of Addictive Family Patterns
: :Agoraphobia is an abnormal fear of open or public places, and agoraphobics are typically terrified to leave their homes. Psychologist Robert Chope provides strategies to help relatives of agoraphobics assess the degree to which they have sacrificed their lives to a loved one's fears. Exercises and case studies allow readers to understand codependency and determine whether their behavior is actually exacerbating the agoraphobic's problem.
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Children of Alcoholism: The Struggle for Self and Intimacy in Adult Life
: :'Neatly packaged, intelligently written, and intensely interesting. . . .Drawing on her training and personal experiences, Wood has written a book about development of the essence of oneself, impediments to fulfillment of personal needs, and encouragement of more satisying forms of self-expression. Her insightful vignettes illustrate both the rationale and application of the strategies she suggests and explain her terapeutic mistakes. Regardless of one's theoretical alliances and level of treatment expertise, this book can be used to enhance conceptualization of psychopathology, reevalaute the emotional climate fostered in the therapeutic situation, ...
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Jesus and Addiction: A Prescription to Transform the Dysfunctional Church and Recover Authentic Christianity
: :'Neatly packaged, intelligently written, and intensely interesting. . . .Drawing on her training and personal experiences, Wood has written a book about development of the essence of oneself, impediments to fulfillment of personal needs, and encouragement of more satisying forms of self-expression. Her insightful vignettes illustrate both the rationale and application of the strategies she suggests and explain her terapeutic mistakes. Regardless of one's theoretical alliances and level of treatment expertise, this book can be used to enhance conceptualization of psychopathology, reevalaute the emotional climate fostered in the therapeutic situation, ...
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