Gestalt therapy for addictive and self-medicating behaviors
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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c2012
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| Beschreibung: | 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 This volume describes the most current gestalt approaches to treating substance abuse and other self-medicating behaviors by a leading practitioner and scholar in the field. It is based on the gestalt view of the self-medicating dynamic as one of pattern repetition and difficulty overcoming rigid patterns of response to sensory experience and life's routine demands. The book provides a practical model for helping clients with the gamut of self-medicating behaviors-substance and alcohol abuse, overeating, gambling, overworking, rage, and others-and describes a recovery program as a system creat |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 195 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0826106951 082610696X 1280127228 9780826106957 9780826106964 9781280127229 |