Gestalt therapy for addictive and self-medicating behaviors
By: Philip Brownell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780826106957; 9780826106964
Subjects: Addictive Behavior; Gestalt therapy; Methods; Substance-Related Disorders; Gestalt Therapy; Substance abuse; Therapy; Treatment; Adverse effects; Self Medication
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Need to change; title: Nature of addiction and self-medicating behaviors; title: Just how fixed can one get? The nature of recovery; title: Will to change; title: Approach to treatment; title: Nature of individual experience; title: Importance of relationships; title: Sense of the situation; title: Willingness to experiment; title: Program for changing one's life; title: One's world; title: Role of discipline in a person's world; title: Your client's body: the physical horizon; title: Client's thought life: the cognitive horizon; title: Client's emotions: the affective horizon; title: Client's relationships: the relational horizon; title: Client's ultimate beliefs: the spiritual horizon; title: Paradoxical change in recovery; title: Living in the present; title: Working one's own program; title: Trusting in the process; title: Submitting to community.