Script And Addiction

Download Script And Addiction full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Script And Addiction ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Script and Addiction

Author : Maria Moore
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527527085
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Script and Addiction by : Maria Moore

Download or read book Script and Addiction written by Maria Moore and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addiction to alcohol and other substances is a growing problem today. The Alcoholics Anonymous 12 Steps Programme is the standard method for treating addictions, and defines an ordered program which, if completed, should break the addiction. However, the level of success here is low. Two main problems in this regard are the failure of the addict to complete the programme and their relapse back into addiction. Treatment of addiction by other methods is even less successful. A new approach is needed, one which better integrates those treating addiction. By combining the 12 Steps programme and the idea of “Life Script”, a concept from Transactional Analysis, this book demonstrates that a much higher success rate can be achieved. The author pioneered this approach for five years, achieving an improved rate of success from this combination. The book includes case studies to underpin its findings.

Scripting Addiction

Author : E. Summerson Carr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836654
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Scripting Addiction by : E. Summerson Carr

Download or read book Scripting Addiction written by E. Summerson Carr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaming the language of addiction treatment Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to reconfigure their relationship to drugs? To answer this question, anthropologist Summerson Carr traces the charged interactions between counselors, clients, and case managers at "Fresh Beginnings," an addiction treatment program for homeless women in the midwestern United States. She shows that shelter, food, and even the custody of children hang in the balance of everyday therapeutic exchanges, such as clinical assessments, individual therapy sessions, and self-help meetings. Acutely aware of the high stakes of self-representation, experienced clients analyze and learn to effectively perform prescribed ways of speaking, a mimetic practice they call "flipping the script." As a clinical ethnography, Scripting Addiction examines how decades of clinical theorizing about addiction, language, self-knowledge, and sobriety is manifested in interactions between counselors and clients. As an ethnography of the contemporary United States, the book demonstrates the complex cultural roots of the powerful clinical ideas that shape therapeutic transactions— and by extension administrative routines and institutional dynamics—at sites such as "Fresh Beginnings."

Rewriting Life Scripts

Author : Liliane Desjardins
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
ISBN 13 : 1932690972
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (326 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rewriting Life Scripts by : Liliane Desjardins

Download or read book Rewriting Life Scripts written by Liliane Desjardins and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rewriting Life Scripts" contains information, explanation, and processes for change that embrace an entire family, not just the alcoholic or drug addict. The steps outlined can bring peace of mind, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Addiction and Recovery For Dummies

Author : Brian F. Shaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118069986
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Addiction and Recovery For Dummies by : Brian F. Shaw

Download or read book Addiction and Recovery For Dummies written by Brian F. Shaw and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluate medications and treatment programs Break free from addictive substances or behaviors and get a fresh start Think you have an addiction? This compassionate guide helps you identify the problem and work towards a healthy, realistic approach to recovery, explaining the latest clinical and self-help treatments for both adults and teens. This book also offers tips on reducing cravings, handling your relationships, and staying well for the long run. Discover how to * Identify the reasons for addiction * Choose the best treatment plan * Handle slips and relapses * Detect addictions in a loved one * Find help and support

Scripting Addiction

Author : E. Summerson Carr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691144504
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (445 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Scripting Addiction by : E. Summerson Carr

Download or read book Scripting Addiction written by E. Summerson Carr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners evaluate how drug users speak about themselves and their problems, and where the ideal of "healthy" talk is explicitly promoted, carefully monitored, and identified as the primary sign of therapeutic progress. The book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to reconfigure their relationship to drugs? To answer this question, anthropologist Summerson Carr traces the charged interactions between counselors, clients, and case managers at "Fresh Beginnings," an addiction treatment program for homeless women in the midwestern United States. She shows that shelter, food, and even the custody of children hang in the balance of everyday therapeutic exchanges, such as clinical assessments, individual therapy sessions, and self-help meetings. Acutely aware of the high stakes of self-representation, experienced clients analyze and learn to effectively perform prescribed ways of speaking, a mimetic practice they call "flipping the script." As a clinical ethnography, Scripting Addiction examines how decades of clinical theorizing about addiction, language, self-knowledge, and sobriety is manifested in interactions between counselors and clients. As an ethnography of the contemporary United States, the book demonstrates the complex cultural roots of the powerful clinical ideas that shape therapeutic transactions--and by extension administrative routines and institutional dynamics--at sites such as "Fresh Beginnings."

Overcoming Internet Addiction For Dummies

Author : David N. Greenfield
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119711878
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Overcoming Internet Addiction For Dummies by : David N. Greenfield

Download or read book Overcoming Internet Addiction For Dummies written by David N. Greenfield and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to beating internet addiction and screen overuse and for living a fuller life There’s no escaping it―we live in a digital world. We work, play, socialize, and learn online, and the Internet provides many amazing opportunities. Unfortunately, because of our basic biology, we’re all susceptible to overuse and addiction to screens. Video games, social media, porn, and even scrolling online, taps into that pleasurable dopamine reward system. So, when is it time to log off or put the phone down and get help? Overcoming Internet Addiction For Dummies gives you the information, resources, and the self-assessment tools you need to discover how much is too much, along with practical suggestions on what to do about it. Learn how to take back control of your time and attention—or help your kids or loved ones get control of theirs. This comprehensive, user-friendly overview of Internet addiction is full of helpful and proven methods to help foster a healthy, balanced, and sustainable life with screens. Discover the basic biology of addiction, including why children and teens are especially susceptible. Become aware of the cognitive, psychological, and physical effects excess Internet and screen use. Learn how social media, video gaming, and Internet pornography could be getting in the way of real-time living. Find out why smartphones are not smart for you to use all the time. Understand the science of how and why you can become addicted to your screens so you can unplug more easily and use your time for what matters most. Empower yourself and your children to build a positive relationship with the Internet and digital technology. This book can help you and your loved ones plug back into life and show you where you can find information, resources, support, and treatment. Overcoming Internet Addiction is about taking back control of your time and attention and learning to manage your screen use, so it doesn’t manage you.

Flipping the Script

Author : A. J. Gibson
Publisher : Mango Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781633538306
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Flipping the Script by : A. J. Gibson

Download or read book Flipping the Script written by A. J. Gibson and published by Mango Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life is complicated and messy, but every now and then life gives you a syndicated talk show on a major network - and then fires your ass for not being gay enough. Then it sends your born-again Christian sister to take you out to lunch on your birthday, only to tell you she suddenly believes you can pray your gay away and that your show was shit anyways because you weren't using it to do anything for Christ. Then again, that specific situation may have only happened to AJ Gibson.... Either way, he knows what it's like when life feels like a rollercoaster, and in his self-help book Flipping the Script, he's not going to sugar-coat the truth. After all, this isn't Hollywood. Er... anymore. Know you're not alone: AJ's journey from a closeted gay boy from Ohio to that guy that people kinda, sorta recognize from Hollywood and TV seems glossy, but the truth is anything but. In Flipping the Script, AJ shows how his life has been a series of lemons. Every time he thinks he's in the clear, he finds a new way to crash and burn. Let's just say insecurity was once a pretty close friend of his. So he knows what you feel like. Really, he does. Luckily he's pretty smart and moderately witty, always finding his way out of life's rock bottom moments - and you can too"--Provided by publisher.

Candy

Author : Luke Davies
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760638218
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Candy by : Luke Davies

Download or read book Candy written by Luke Davies and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were good times and bad times, but in the beginning there were more good times. When I first met Candy those were the days of juice, when everything was bountiful. Only much later did it all start to seem like sugar and blood, blood and sugar...It's like you're cruising along in a beautiful car on a pleasant country road with the breeze in your hair and the smell of eucalyptus all around you. The horizon is always up there ahead, unfolding towards you, and at first you don't notice the gradual descent, or the way the atmosphere thickens. Bit by bit the gradient gets steeper, and before you realise you have no brakes, you're going pretty fucking fast.' Candy is a love story. It is also a novel about addiction. From the heady narcissism of the narrator's first days with his new lover, Candy, and the relative innocence of their shared habit, Candy charts their decline. Candy becomes a prostitute, the narrator becomes a scam artist, and smack becomes the total and only focus of their lives. But this is not just another junkie novel: Davies is a very fine writer and Candy is confronting, painful, sexy, tender and at times darkly hilarious. A remarkable novel.

Recovery

Author : Russell Brand
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250141931
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Recovery by : Russell Brand

Download or read book Recovery written by Russell Brand and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery “This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification is not that I am better than you but I am worse.” —Russell Brand With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of recovery. Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of addiction—from drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean, sane, and unhooked is a daily activity. He believes that the question is not “Why are you addicted?” but "What pain is your addiction masking? Why are you running—into the wrong job, the wrong life, the wrong person’s arms?" Russell has been in all the twelve-step fellowships going, he’s started his own men’s group, he’s a therapy regular and a practiced yogi—and while he’s worked on this material as part of his comedy and previous bestsellers, he’s never before shared the tools that really took him out of it, that keep him clean and clear. Here he provides not only a recovery plan, but an attempt to make sense of the ailing world.

Games Alcoholics Play

Author : Claude M. Steiner, Ph.D.
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307783820
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Games Alcoholics Play by : Claude M. Steiner, Ph.D.

Download or read book Games Alcoholics Play written by Claude M. Steiner, Ph.D. and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most lucid account of the patterns of problem drinkers ever set down in a book! Drawing on soundly tested theories of transactional behavior, Dr. Steiner describes the three distinct types of alcoholics -- Drunk and Proud, Lush and Wino -- and their games, scripts and rackets: Debtor... Kick... Cops and robbers... Plastic Woman... Captain Marvel...Ain't it awful... Schlemiel... Look how hard I've tried... and others. His approach is the single most useful tool for dealing with alcoholism since A.A. and the Twelve Steps, and offers the first real help -- and hope -- for problem drinkers and their families.

A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps

Author : Patrick Carnes
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1592858430
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (928 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps by : Patrick Carnes

Download or read book A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps written by Patrick Carnes and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps Updated and Expanded

Irresistible

Author : Adam Alter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222843
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Irresistible by : Adam Alter

Download or read book Irresistible written by Adam Alter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Irresistible is a fascinating and much needed exploration of one of the most troubling phenomena of modern times.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers David and Goliath and Outliers “One of the most mesmerizing and important books I’ve read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity.” —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction—an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three hours each day using our smartphones. Half of us would rather suffer a broken bone than a broken phone, and Millennial kids spend so much time in front of screens that they struggle to interact with real, live humans. In this revolutionary book, Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, tracks the rise of behavioral addiction, and explains why so many of today's products are irresistible. Though these miraculous products melt the miles that separate people across the globe, their extraordinary and sometimes damaging magnetism is no accident. The companies that design these products tweak them over time until they become almost impossible to resist. By reverse engineering behavioral addiction, Alter explains how we can harness addictive products for the good—to improve how we communicate with each other, spend and save our money, and set boundaries between work and play—and how we can mitigate their most damaging effects on our well-being, and the health and happiness of our children. Adam Alter's previous book, Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave is available in paperback from Penguin.

Writing and Developing College Textbook Supplements

Author : Mary Ellen Lepionka
Publisher : Atlantic Path Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780972816410
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (164 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Writing and Developing College Textbook Supplements by : Mary Ellen Lepionka

Download or read book Writing and Developing College Textbook Supplements written by Mary Ellen Lepionka and published by Atlantic Path Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alcoholics Anonymous

Author : Bill W.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698176936
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Alcoholics Anonymous by : Bill W.

Download or read book Alcoholics Anonymous written by Bill W. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.

Addictive Consumption

Author : Gerda Reith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429875649
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Addictive Consumption by : Gerda Reith

Download or read book Addictive Consumption written by Gerda Reith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging new book, Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption. Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, Marx and Bataille, amongst others, she investigates the ways that understandings of ‘the problems of consumption’ change over time, and asks what these changes can tell us about their wider social and political contexts. Through this, she uses ideas about both consumption and addiction to explore issues around identity and desire, excess and control and reason and disorder. She also assesses how our concept of 'normal' consumption has grown out of efforts to regulate behaviour historically considered as disruptive or deviant, and how in the contemporary world the 'dark side' of consumption has been medicalised in terms of addiction, pathology and irrationality. By drawing on case studies of drugs, food and gambling, the volume demonstrates the ways in which modern practices of consumption are rooted in historical processes and embedded in geopolitical structures of power. It not only asks how modern consumer culture came to be in the form it is today, but also questions what its various manifestations can tell us about wider issues in capitalist modernity. Addictive Consumption offers a compelling new perspective on the origins, development and problems of consumption in modern society. The volume’s interdisciplinary profile will appeal to scholars and students in sociology, psychology, history, philosophy and anthropology.

Addict

Author : Jerome McDonough
Publisher : I. E. Clark Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780886802417
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Addict by : Jerome McDonough

Download or read book Addict written by Jerome McDonough and published by I. E. Clark Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook

Author : Suzette Glasner-Edwards
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1626252807
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (262 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook by : Suzette Glasner-Edwards

Download or read book The Addiction Recovery Skills Workbook written by Suzette Glasner-Edwards and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book Recommendation. Winner of the 4Th International Beverly Hills Book Awards in the category of Addiction & Recovery! Is your addiction taking control of your life? This book provides an integrative, seven-step program to help you finally overcome drug and alcohol addiction, once and for all. If you struggle with addiction, seeking treatment is a powerful, positive first step toward eventual recovery. But gaining an understanding of the causes of addiction—such as feelings of helplessness or loss of control—is also crucial for recovery. In this book, addiction expert Suzette Glasner-Edwards offers evidence-based techniques fusing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention to help you move past your addictive behaviors. On the long road to addiction recovery, you need as many tools as possible to help you stay sober and reach your destination. That’s why this is the first book to combine research-proven motivational techniques, CBT, and mindfulness-based strategies to help you create your own unique recovery plan. The book can be used on its own or as an adjunct to rehab or therapy. It also makes a wonderful resource for loved ones and professionals treating addiction. If you're ready to take that important first step toward recovery, this book can help you beat your addiction and get back to living a full, meaningful life.