Rethinking excessive habits and addictive behaviors / Tony Bevacqua.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015Description: xiv, 198 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781442248298 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1442248297 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC 533 .B48 2015
Contents:
The origins of the AA mindset -- Changing our language, changing our subjectivity -- The reality of human experience -- Love, approval, and validation -- Rethinking excessive habits and addictive behaviors -- Deconstructing deficit-based language -- Pharmaceutical drugs and the DSM-5 -- Celebrity culture and addictive behavior -- Parenting influence on children -- The "love" we learned -- Subjective well-being: the goal of all positive outcomes -- Rethinking your life challenges and experiences -- New learning, new direction.
Summary: Twelve-step programs are one of the most popular ways of treating addiction, but are they the best? Here, Tony Bevacqua questions the efficacy of these approaches and offers a different way of looking at addiction that takes into account his work with clients in his private practice and other studies done on the notion of addiction as a disease. Breaking new ground in the area of addiction, his work will offer clients and practitioners an alternative route forward.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The origins of the AA mindset -- Changing our language, changing our subjectivity -- The reality of human experience -- Love, approval, and validation -- Rethinking excessive habits and addictive behaviors -- Deconstructing deficit-based language -- Pharmaceutical drugs and the DSM-5 -- Celebrity culture and addictive behavior -- Parenting influence on children -- The "love" we learned -- Subjective well-being: the goal of all positive outcomes -- Rethinking your life challenges and experiences -- New learning, new direction.

Twelve-step programs are one of the most popular ways of treating addiction, but are they the best? Here, Tony Bevacqua questions the efficacy of these approaches and offers a different way of looking at addiction that takes into account his work with clients in his private practice and other studies done on the notion of addiction as a disease. Breaking new ground in the area of addiction, his work will offer clients and practitioners an alternative route forward.

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