Overview

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 created to change one's lifestyle over time through the development of disciplines that ultimately shape one's life. The volume will also be helpful to therapists in other modalities as an alternative therapy when treating self-medicating clients, as well as a spiritual alternative to the 12-step approach. Key Features: Applies current gestalt therapy approaches to the spectrum of addictive behaviors Provides practical treatment models for self-medicating behaviors Written by a prominent practitioner and scholar of gestalt therapy Offers a spiritual alternative to the 12-step approach to recovery

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Author:   Philip Brownell
Publisher:   Springer Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Springer Publishing Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780826106957

ISBN 10:   0826106951
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 December 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I THE NEED TO CHANGE 1. The Nature of Addiction and Self-Medicating Behaviors 2. Just How Fixed Can One Get? The Nature of Recovery 3. The Will to Change PART II: AN APPROACH TO TREATMENT 4. The Nature of Individual Experience 5. The Importance of Relationship 6. The Sense of the Situation 7. The Willingness to Experiment PART III: A PROGRAM FOR CHANGING ONE’S LIFE 8. One’s World 107 9. The Role of Discipline in A Person’s World 10. Your Client’s Body—The Physical Horizon 131 11. Your Client’s Thought Life—The Cognitive Horizon 12. Your Client’s Emotions—The Affective Horizon 13. Your Client’s Relationships—The Relational Horizon 14. Your Client’s Ultimate Beliefs—The Spiritual Horizon PART IV: PARADOXICAL CHANGE IN RECOVERY 15. Living in the Present 16. Working One’s Own Program 17. Trusting in the Process 18. Submitting to Community Conclusion Index

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Philip Brownell, MDiv, PsyD, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in North Carolina and Oregon and a Registered Psychologist in Bermuda. He is an ordained clergyman and writes a weekly column on integrative issues for The Royal Gazette, Bermuda's largest daily newspaper. He is currently a staff psychologist at Benedict Associates, Ltd., where he offers a broad range of assessment and counseling services to child, adolescent, and adult populations, including individual, couple, family, and group therapy.

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