Addictions Books
Introduction to chemical dependency counseling:
An introduction to alcoholism and drug addiction. It can be used by students preparing to take the Certified Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) exams; those on college courses in... (more)
Understanding Street Drugs: A Handbook of Substance Misuse for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals: Second Edition
This fully updated edition of the essential reference Understanding Drugs provides a complete overview of the key facts and core issues surrounding substance misuse. All commonly-used street drugs... (more)
Overcoming addictions: Skills training for people with schizophrenia
The combination of schizophrenia and drug or alcohol addiction is common, devastating and difficult to treat. With a focus on skills training this manual seeks to help the therapist teach... (more)
Substance abuse: from principles to practice
An ideal book for anyone interested in the subject of or affected by substance abuse in any of its many forms. Covers the history, chemistry, biology, epidemiology, psychology and other salient... (more)
The clinician's guide to 12-step programs: How, when, and why to refer a client
This guide for professionals to 12-step programme referral covers: how psychological theories align with 12-step programmes; differences in programmes addressing similar addictive behaviours;... (more)
Treating Addiction as a Human Process
Individuals with addictive disorders feel either too much or too little; they are over-controlled or out-of-control. Focusing on a psychodynamic perspective, the author of this work believes it is... (more)
The Anti-Depressant Era
An account of the phenomenon of antidepressants. The book chronicles the history of psychopharmacology and the current debate over drugs replacing psychotherapy, and explores the regulation of drug... (more)
Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse
Cognitive therapy offers a well-documented and cost-effective psychosocial treatment model for working with substance abuse disorders. Comprehensive and accessible, this volume clearly details the... (more)
Coyote Speaks: Creative strategies for psychotherapists treating alcohol addiction
This book describes the strengths and strategies a therapist needs in order to work successfully with alcoholics and addicts. It explores the darkness of alcohol and drug addiction and shows how to... (more)
Healing the Shame That Binds You
This classic book has been completely updated and expanded by the author.
"I used to drink," writes John Bradshaw, "to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I drank to relieve my... (more)
Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Developmental Perspective
A comprehensive theoretical and practical presentation on the assessment and treatment of adult children of alcoholics. In Treating Adult Children of Alcoholics, renowned psychologist, researcher,... (more)
Counselling heroin and other drug users
320p Paperback 1995
Treating the alcoholic: A developmental model of recovery
Designed especially for psychotherapists who have long had difficulty treating alcoholics, this developmental model translates the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous into psychological terminology,... (more)
The dually diagnosed: a therapist's guide to helping the substance abusing, psychologically disturbed patient.
This text seeks to address the therapeutic dilemma of the dually diagnosed. Challenging the conventional wisdom, Ortman argues that the clinician should be prepared to treat the entire patient in one... (more)
Psychotherapy of cocaine addiction: entering the interpersonal world of the cocaine addict
This work examines effective psychotherapy with people who are addicted to cocaine. While its emphasis is on the people themselves rather than on the drug or the phenomenon of addiction, the... (more)
Treatment of abuse and addiction: a holistic approach
Presenting a holistic model of psychotherapy for people suffering from addictions, abusive relationships, and poor self-esteem, this text combines group and individual therapy with supportive and... (more)
Solutions Step by Step: A substance abuse treatment manual
A practical guide introducing the solution-focused approach to clinicians working with substance abusers. Stressing solutions rather than pathology, clients strengths and their strategies for past... (more)
Addictive Thinking: Understanding the Addictive Process & Compulsive Behaviour
Argues that addicts are unable to make healthy decisions, and that addictive thinking exists before substance abuse begins. (more)
Women and alcohol: Contemporary and historical perspectives
Brings together a wide range of contemporary and historical evidence on the consumption of alcohol and its associated adverse consequences and benefits amongst women. The text presents a discussion... (more)
Essential Papers on Addiction
Presents the most important writings, and the various sides of the debate on the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adddiction. Daniel Yalisove outlines the history of the treatment of... (more)
Psychodynamics of Drug Dependence
A study of the unconscious motivations of addiction. (more)
Substance abuse as symptom: A Psychoanalytic critique of treatment approaches and the cultural beliefs that sustain them
A psychoanalytic study of the unconscious motivations surrounding drug abuse and society's response to it. (more)
Within the wall of denial: Conquering addictive behaviors
Bridging the contrasting methods of confrontation and support, this book presents a perspective on the nature and function of denial. It provides advice on how to relate to people who are trapped by... (more)