Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Psychopathology - Addiction

"Patricia Monasmith knew something needed to change when she woke up handcuff ed to a hospital bed in Hearn, Texas, after overdosing on valium and drinking a case of beer."

She began the painful process of recovery and found her way to the Lord, becoming a speaker, teacher, and counselor's assistant who teaches groups at a drug and alcohol facility. Now she seeks to continually sow seeds for the Lord and help her fellow Christians fight the good fight of faith as she teaches spiritual warfare seminars and hopes to complete her degree as a minister. Her goals also include building a...

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone

When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security in the sport they love and with each other. This friendship between doctor and...

Recovery Zone, Volume One picks up where Facing the Shadow leaves off, guiding readers to begin working tasks eight through thirteen of Dr. Patrick Carnes' innovative thirty-task model. This book helps readers understand that true recovery is achieved by learning to cope with difficult situations and emotions.

When you discover that the person you loved and trusted most in the world is hiding a secret life as a sex addict, the result can be devastating. Facing that heartbreak is what this book is all about. The healing process will take time regardless of whether you decide to stay in the relationship or leave.

Facing Heartbreak weaves real life stories with practical therapeutic advice and specific tasks that gently educate, empower, and guide the partner of the sex addict through a process of recovery. Using Dr. Patrick Carnes' thirty-task sex recovery model, readers will learn to...

• Draws on a unique breadth of material to illustrate the dilemmas faced by family members in coping with a close relative's addiction
• Raises questions and points to controversies rather than dispensing prescriptive "one size fits all" advice
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Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted, surgeon showing how their powerful addictions to cocaine shaped their enormous contributions to psychology and medicine.
When Freud and Halsted began their experiments with cocaine in the 1880s, neither they, nor their colleagues, had any idea of the drug's potential to dominate and endanger their lives. An Anatomy of Addiction tells the tragic and heroic story of each man, accidentally struck down in his prime by an insidious malady:...