In the realm of hungry ghosts : close encounters with addiction
Record details
- ISBN: 0307371735
- ISBN: 9780307371737
- ISBN: 155643880X
- ISBN: 9781556438806
- ISBN: 1583944206
- ISBN: 9781583944202
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (471 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, ©2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. V : The Addiction process and the addictive personality -- "A Void I'll do anything to avaoid" -- Too much time on external things : the addiction-prone personality -- Poor substitutes for love : behavioral addictions and their origins -- pt. VI : Imagining a humane reality : beyond the war on drugs -- The Social roots of addiction -- Know thine enemy -- "Ignorant fanaticism" : the failed war on drugs -- Freedom of choice and the choice of freedom -- Toward an enlightened social policy on drugs -- Reducing harm -- pt. VII : The Ecology of healing -- The Power of compassionate curiosity -- The Internal climate -- The Four steps, plus one -- Sobriety and the external milieu -- A Word to families, friends, and caregivers -- There is nothing lost : addiction and the spiritual quest -- Memories and miracles : an epilogue -- Postscript -- Appendices -- I : Fallacies of adoption and twin studies -- II : A Close link : attention deficit disorder and addictions -- III : The Prevention of addiction -- IV : The Twelve steps -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Index -- About the author. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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