Chained to the Desk (Second Edition): A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them
Being a workaholic doesn't just mean being a hard worker, says  Robinson, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of North  Carolina who has been studying people's work habits for years. It means  you've got a progressively worsening addiction like any other, in which  work becomes thesubstanceyou use in an attempt to meet your  unconscious psychological needs. Robinson calls workaholism the  "best-dressed addiction," because it's often rewarded--at  least in the short term--and is seen as a positive attribute by people  who don't understand the destruction it can cause.Chained to the  Deskprovides worksheets to help you recognize whether you or  someone close to you is a work addict, case studies that demonstrate  workaholic ways of thinking, and treatment methods that involve the  entire family. It sheds considerable light on a topic that mental-health professionals often don't recognize--in part because, as  Robinson points out, many of them are workaholics themselves. --Ben  Kallen, Personal Growth editor--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.