Gestalt therapy for addictive and self-medicating behaviors [electronic resource] /

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.

Description based on print version record.