Books & eBooks

Demystifying Addiction presents a Relational model, picking up where the Medical model left off. The disease was defined as a 'pathological dependence,' but was never viewed in terms of being a (pathological) relationship, or as the result of non-emotionally nourishing relationships. The 'pathological dependency' is a pathological relationship, one in which there is a beginning, progressive emotional involvement and a synergistic interplay between dependence and denial.

It accounts for etiology, identifies pre-existing conditions, brings forth a phenomenological or experiential perspective, all of which have profound treatment implications.

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When you accept the premise that true love is essentially intimacy, you can begin learning and applying basic principles for creating intimate relationships. When it comes to attainability and sustainability, gaining some basic relationship knowledge and wisdom can be the difference between the search and discovery.

Never before has the process of developing a healthy relationship from the point of initial contact been as carefully detailed and explained.

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Dating provided the most basic and necessary information for transforming your dating experience and improving the quality of your relationships.

• Learn how to make dating a rewarding, self-affirming experience
• Learn how to handle common but challenging dating situations: mutual interest, rejecting and being rejected
• Learn how to communicate more effectively
• Learn how to establish rapport
• Learn reliable criteria for partner selection
• Make clearer distinctions between fantasy and reality
• Be able to enjoy the excitement of attraction without sabotaging yourself
• Avoid pitfalls that sabotage relationship opportunities

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Relational Recovery, Empowering the Transformation of Relationships Relationships don't just happen, they are created. No longer does creating and sustaining an emotionally nourishing relationship have to be such a monumental challenge or unlikely preposition.No longer will the lack of healthy role models and experience in healthy relationships have to sabotage your efforts and left feeling demoralized and disillusioned.

Learning basic principles, how to deal with inevitable challenges, i.e. negative feelings, conflicts and differences, avoid pitfalls and specific communication skills will, no doubt make the creation of intimate relationships possible. The formation and development of a relationship is a "joint-effort creation:.

"Enter into an initial encounter with a 'clean-slate' in the spirit of discovery.", "Relationships continue from where they begin.", "Intimacy begins with rapport.","The nature of intimacy is one of vulnerability."

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An Intervention is a step-by-step process that gives significant others the opportunity to confront their loved one about their addiction and need for immediate treatment.

For professionals and students, Mastering is a detailed instructional guide that describes in depth the five basic phases of the process:

I Initial Contact, II Psycho-education, III Recollection, IV Rehearsal, V Implementation; A Case Example (Nick's Intervention), followed by analysis and conclusions.

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Diagnosing presents a fresh, new approach for doing assessments to determine whether an addiction exists. We're expanding on the standard medical model approach that relies solely and entirely on objective criteria by including 'subjective' criteria, i.e. manifestations of denial, to make a 'subjective' diagnosis. Contrary to the Medical Model, subjective criteria can be as reliable and valid as objective criteria.

The underlying rationale for a strategy that involves looking for and identifying manifestations of denial is: Wherever there is denial, there is dependency, a rationale based on the Relational Model of Addiction developed by Daniel Linder.

A transcript of a session with a marijuana addicted patient is taken apart. Various types of manifestations of denial are identified and how to interpret them are discussed.

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Revisiting Stigma: The Game of Appearances revisits how stigma still, despite awareness about its existence and its effects, dictates how we behave in a variety of situations. Taking excerpts from the play, Night Mother, which uses epilepsy as a case in point, we will see how stigma works as a weapon that punishes any deviation from the established standards of desirability, that forces people to misrepresent themselves and hide their problems. Professionals who have either lost sight of, or underestimate the multitude of overpowering, far-reaching, shame inducing effects of stigma are at risk of counter-transference issues that can undermine treatment. We know that clinicians are human beings, not impervious to social conditioning.

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