Research Catalog

Title

The truth about addiction and recovery : the life process program for outgrowing destructive habits / Stanton Peele, Archie Brodsky, with Mary Arnold.

Author

Peele, Stanton.

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brodsky, Archie.
• Arnold, Mary, 1951-

Description

430 pages; 24 cm

Summary

From alcoholism to shopping addiction : addiction is not a disease. Why it doesn't make sense to call addiction a "disease" ; Are people born alcoholics? ; Which is the most addictive drug of all? ; Smoking : the toughest habit to lick? ; Obesity : arepeople biologically programmed to be fat? ; Addictions to gambling, shopping, and exercise : how we evade moral responsibility ; Love, sex, and codependence : overcoming trauma -- The life process program : skills for taking control of your life. The life process program ; Quitting as life process : the case of Paula ; Are you an addict : assessing addiction in the life process program ; Assessing your values : knowing what is important to you ; Assessing your resources : what do you have that you can count on? ; I'm not the person I want to be : how people carry out plans to change ; Changing the behavior : that obscure object of desire ; Life skills : if you don't have them, get them -- Changing communities, changing lives. Integrating change into your life : groups and your social world ; Kids have to be made into addicts : you can prevent addiction ; Where the solutions really lie : re-establishing communal ties ; A road map : where we've been and where you need to go -- Appendix : what the JAMA study on genes and alcoholism tells us.

Subject

• Compulsive behavior
• Habit breaking
• Rehabilitation
• Medical rehabilitation
• Self-care, Health
• Social adjustment
• Behavior, Addictive
• Self Care
• Social Adjustment
• Substance-Related Disorders > epidemiology
• Substance-Related Disorders > rehabilitation
• Compulsive Behavior
• Rehabilitation
• addiction
• pardons
• Social adjustment
• Self-care, Health
• Medical rehabilitation
• Compulsive behavior
• Habit breaking
• Sucht
• Selbsthilfe
• Ätiologie
• Drug addicts > Rehabilitation
• Health self-care
• United States > epidemiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-417) and index.

Contents

I. From alcoholism to shopping addiction: addition is not a disease : Why it doesn't make sense to call addiction a "disease" ; Are people born alcoholics? ; Which is the most addictive drug of all? ; Smoking: the toughest habit to lick? ; Obesity: are people biologically programmed to be fat? ; Addictions to gambling, shopping, and exercise: how we evade moral responsibility ; Love, sex, and codependence: overcoming trauma -- II. The life process program: skills for taking control of your life : The life process program ; Quitting as life process: the case of Paula ; Are you an addict? Assessing addiction in the life process program ; Assessing your values: knowing what is important to you ; Assessing your resources: what do you have that you can count on? ; I'm not the person I want to be: how people carry out plans to change ; Changing the behavior: that obscure object of desire ; Life skills: if you don't have them, get them -- III. Changing communities, changing lives : Integrating change into your life: groups and your social world ; Kids have to be made into addicts: you can prevent addiction ; Where the solutions really lie: re-establishing communal ties ; A road map: where we've been and where you need to go -- Appendix: What the JAMA study on genes and alcoholism tells us.

ISBN

• 067166901X
• 9780671669010

LCCN

90027678

OCLC

• ocm23017935
• 23017935
• SCSB-9643859

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library