| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 195 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Need to change -- Nature of addiction and self-medicating behaviors -- Just how fixed can one get? The nature of recovery -- Will to change -- Approach to treatment -- Nature of individual experience -- Importance of relationships -- Sense of the situation -- Willingness to experiment -- Program for changing one's life -- One's world -- Role of discipline in a person's world -- Your client's body: the physical horizon -- Client's thought life: the cognitive horizon -- Client's emotions: the affective horizon -- Client's relationships: the relational horizon -- Client's ultimate beliefs: the spiritual horizon -- Paradoxical change in recovery -- Living in the present -- Working one's own program -- Trusting in the process -- Submitting to community. |
| Summary |
This volume describes the most current gestalt approaches to treating substance abuse and other self-medicating behaviors by a leading practitioner and scholar in the field. It is based on the gestalt view of the self-medicating dynamic as one of pattern repetition and difficulty overcoming rigid patterns of response to sensory experience and life's routine demands. The book provides a practical model for helping clients with the gamut of self-medicating behaviors-substance and alcohol abuse, overeating, gambling, overworking, rage, and others-and describes a recovery program as a system creat. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Substance abuse -- Treatment.
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Substance abuse -- Treatment. |
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Gestalt therapy.
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Gestalt therapy. |
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Gestalt Therapy -- methods. |
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Behavior, Addictive -- therapy. |
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Self Medication -- adverse effects. |
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Substance-Related Disorders -- therapy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brownell, Philip, Psy. D. Gestalt therapy for addictive and self-medicating behaviors. New York : Springer, ©2012 9780826106957 (DLC) 2011943176 (OCoLC)775506917 |
| ISBN |
9780826106964 (electronic book) |
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082610696X (electronic book) |
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9781280127229 |
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1280127228 |
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9780826106957 |
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0826106951 |
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