Substance Abuse category: 962 books
The Addictive Personality
Understanding the Addictive Process and Compulsive Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Craig Nakken brings new depth and dimension to our understanding of how an individual becomes an addict.
Since its publication in 1988, The Addictive Personality has helped people understand the process of addiction. Now, through this second edition, author Craig Nakken brings new depth and...
by Robert Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Cruise Control is the premiere book on the growing problem of sex addiction in gay men. This second edition explores how technology has impacted the instant ability to "meet up" and the implications of being in recovery in a committed relationship. Accessible resource for achieving sex addiction recovery including a "30 day test" and a dating plan.
Reclaim Your Family From Addiction
How Couples and Families Recover Love and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
With histories, personal stories, and the latest research, this book helps readers chart their way out of addiction and back to the fullness of family by using principles that restore the "we" of lasting, loving relationships.
What happens to the "we" of a family when one member opts for the...
Sex Addiction 101
A Basic Guide to Healing from Sex, Porn, and Love Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The number of affordable, easy links to pleasurable sexual online content is on the rise. Activity increases with the accessibility of technology. So, too, has sex addiction. People struggling with sex, porn, and love addiction typically have little understanding of this incredibly complicated disease....
The Recovering Heart
Emotional Sobriety for Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Beverly Conyers, a prominent voice in recovery, uses personal stories and informed insight to guide you in achieving emotional sobriety by addressing behaviors and feelings unique to the female recovery experience.
Your old, destructive lifestyle is fading into the past and now you are a woman...
Rein In Your Brain
From Impulsivity to Thoughtful Living in Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Those in recovery are often stuck in a dangerous loop of making poor choices based on instant feel-good payoffs. Rein in Your Brain offers 10 proven techniques for intervening on faulty impulsive thinking and actions that have a negative impact on our lives and relationships.
Addiction--whether...
Playing It by Heart
Taking Care of Yourself No Matter What
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Readers will learn what drives them into controlling behavior and victimhood--and what it takes to pull themselves out, to return to the healing, faith, and maturity that come with recovery.
Since the publication of Melody Beattie's groundbreaking book Codependent No More, millions of people...
Dual Disorders
Counseling Clients with Chemical Dependency and Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
The leading text on the biological and psychological relationship between mental illness and addiction, Dual Disorders contains important resources for individuals and their families.
Depression. Schizophrenia. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Millions of individuals diagnosed with psychiatric...
Temptation
Finding Self-Control in an Age of Excess
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
" This elegantly written and useful book . . . describes how, for millennia, human beings have struggled to rein in desire." -USA Today
At a time when the fallout from reckless spending and unrestrained consumption is fueling a national malaise, Daniel Akst delivers a witty and comprehensive...
Healing the Child Within
Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Dr. Whitfield provides a clear and effective introduction to the basic principles of recovery. This book is a modern classic, as fresh and useful today as it was more than a decade ago when first published. Here, frontline physician and therapist Charles Whitfield describes the process of wounding...
The Wisdom of Letting Go
The Path of the Wounded Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Spiritual leader Leo Booth knows that many of us are searching for ways to move beyond trauma, beyond old messages, and beyond the limitations of obsessive behavior. Inspired by his numerous workshops, The Wisdom of Letting Go seeks to answer the complicated question "How do we let go of the unhealthy...
Easy Does It, Mom
Parenting in Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Every mom wants to succeed. Every child also wants to succeed. In Easy Does It Mom, Barbara Joy provides moms with positive encouragement, knowledge, and tools they can begin using immediately as they continue their recovery and move toward being the best moms they can be. Joy relies on experts with...
Changing for Good
A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
How many times have you thought about starting a diet or quitting smoking without doing anything about it? Or lapsed back into bad habits after hitting a rough spot on the road to recovery?
To uncover the secret to successful personal change, three acclaimed psychologists studied more than...
by Tony Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Your Life Can Be Different Do you feel ambushed by your obsessions? Addictions come in all forms: overindulging, overspending, overworking, and more. But no matter how they show up in your life, your addictions trap you and edge out the full freedom you can enjoy in Christ. What if, in the next month,...