Binding: Hardcover
Description: Nobody has had an answer for why people with addictions continue to repeat them - - until now. For more than twenty years distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes has been successfully helping people master their addictions - - alcoholism compulsive gambling smoking sexual addiction and more with a radical approach. Dr. Dodes describes how all addictions have at their heart unrecognized emotional factors that explain: Why we feel the impulse Why we feel it when we do What alternatives (really) work in that critical moment In this refreshing book filled with compelling case studies Dr. Dodes debunks several such widely accepted myths as: Addictions are fundamentally a physical problem. People with addictions are different from other people. You have to hit bottom before you can get well. You are wasting your time if you ask "why" you have an addiction.
Title: The Heart Of Addiction
Author(s): Dodes Lance
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780060958039
Pages: 258 Pages
Publication Date: 12/24/2002
Category: Coping With Drug & Alcohol Abuse