One of the first books on abstinence-based treatment to integrate psychoanalytic and cognitive/behavioural models structurally, Containing the Uncontainable is a practical account of establishing and maintaining treatment with problem drinkers who might otherwise fail to achieve their stated aims. The programme described is particularly relevant for those who are unable to make attachments, or otherwise make use of AA, yet need an intensive, supportive, abstinence-based treatment experience.

No one knows why Mallory Tyler moved to the remote quiet town of Lake City Colorado after the untimely death of her husband, Jack. But everybody notices the out of place, handsome and well dressed, Sal Russo, who had been Jack's business partner and a man that Mallory detests. With Sal's arrival come insinuations that Jack may be alive. Sal's friendship with Jack started in grade school and ended in Jack's death in a plane crash on a Belizean mountainside. Behind Mallory's back, Jack and Sal had built a drug ring that eclipsed all others in the country. Nonetheless, Jack and Sal remained...