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Author Brownell, Philip (Clinical psychologist)

Title Gestalt therapy for addictive and self-medicating behaviors / Philip Brownell.

Imprint New York : Springer, ©2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 195 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
data file rda
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Print version record.
Summary 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.
Language English.
Subject Substance abuse -- Treatment.
Gestalt therapy.
Gestalt Therapy -- methods
Behavior, Addictive -- therapy
Self Medication -- adverse effects
Substance-Related Disorders -- therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Abus de substances psychoactives -- Traitement.
Gestaltthérapie.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General.
Gestalt therapy
Substance abuse -- Treatment
Other Form: Print version: Brownell, Philip, Psy. D. Gestalt therapy for addictive and self-medicating behaviors. New York : Springer, ©2012 9780826106957 (DLC) 2011943176 (OCoLC)775506917
ISBN 9780826106964 (electronic bk.)
082610696X (electronic bk.)
9781280127229
1280127228
9780826106957
0826106951
9786613531094
661353109X
Standard No. AU@ 000058044168
AU@ 000060547025
DEBBG BV040883958
DEBBG BV043149575
DEBBG BV044188410
DEBSZ 38690474X
DEBSZ 421429836
NZ1 14693382

 
    
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