Increase your understanding of the link between alcoholism and shame and guilt with this tremendously important book that adds to our understanding of the total recovery process. This practical volume authoritatively defines the often elusive terms of shame and guilt and provides constructive suggestions to therapists for treating alcoholic clients and affected family members who are suffering from excessive quantities of shame and guilt. Shame, Guilt, and Alcoholism thoroughly explains to therapists the significant differences between shame and guilt as displayed by clients’experiences of failure, primary responses and feelings, precipitating events and involvement of self, and origins and central fears. Author Potter-Efron includes creative approaches to the general treatment of shame and guilt, explores the positive functions of shame and guilt, describes the conscious and subconscious defense mechanisms against shame and guilt, and highlights the very crucial family behaviors that initiate and encourage shame and guilt. Shame, Guilt, and Alcoholism adds immeasurably to our understanding of the total recovery process.
This insightful new book sheds light directly on shame and guilt--interactive aspects of the human condition that are deeply involved in the development and treatment of alcoholism and chemical dependency.
Explore the causes and effects of the shame/guilt/addiction cycle!Since the original edition in 1989, great strides have been made in understanding the overlapping functions of shame and guilt and the...
Shame & Guilt explores the differences between these two painful but inevitable experiences.
Shame and Guilt: Characteristics of the Dependency Cycle : an Historical Perspective for Professionals
This classic book, written 17 years ago but still selling more than 13,000 copies every year, has been completely updated and expanded by the author. "I used to drink," writes John Bradshaw,"to solve the problems caused by drinking.
This volume reports on the growing body of knowledge on shame and guilt, integrating findings from the authors' original research program with other data emerging from social, clinical, personality, and developmental psychology.
In this time of coronavirus concern, you may be feeling stuck and useless. This book helps us recognize shame for what it is, and affirm our basic humanity, humility, autonomy, and competence.
My suppressed “self” held my creativity, receptivity, vulnerability, sexuality, my capacity to give and receive love, and my need for the kind of full relationship I'd enjoyed with Tom. For fifty years, I'd functioned with only part of ...
The author helps us to discover the relationship between shame and chemical dependency and offers a distinction between shame and guilt. It focuses on developing a strong spiritual base in order to heal shame.
Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies ...