Rethinking excessive habits and addictive behaviors

Rethinking excessive habits and addictive behaviors / Tony Bevacqua.

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 studie...

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Main Author: Bevacqua, Tony
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
Subjects:
Compulsive behavior.
Substance abuse.
addiction.
substance abuse.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Compulsive behavior
Substance abuse
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Origins of the AA mindset
  • Changing our language, changing our subjectivity
  • 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.

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