Gestalt therapy for addictive and self-medicating behaviors

Brownell, Philip, Psy. D.

Gestalt therapy for addictive and self-medicating behaviors [electronic resource] / - New York : Springer, c2012. - 1 online resource (xv, 195 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Need to change -- Nature of addiction and self-medicating behaviors -- Just how fixed can one get? The nature of recovery -- Will to change -- Approach to treatment -- Nature of individual experience -- Importance of relationships -- Sense of the situation -- Willingness to experiment -- Program for changing one's life -- One's world -- Role of discipline in a person's world -- Your client's body: the physical horizon -- Client's thought life: the cognitive horizon -- Client's emotions: the affective horizon -- Client's relationships: the relational horizon -- Client's ultimate beliefs: the spiritual horizon -- Paradoxical change in recovery -- Living in the present -- Working one's own program -- Trusting in the process -- Submitting to community.

9780826106964 (electronic bk.) 082610696X (electronic bk.)


Gestalt Therapy--methods.
Behavior, Addictive--therapy.
Self Medication--adverse effects.
Substance-Related Disorders--therapy.
Substance abuse--Treatment.
Gestalt therapy.

2012 C-121 WM 420.5.G3
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