Gestalt Therapy for Addictive and Self-Medicating Behaviors - Philip Brownell

Gestalt Therapy for Addictive and Self-Medicating Behaviors

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Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2011
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-0695-7 (ISBN)
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Describes the most current gestalt approaches to treating substance abuse and other self-medicating behaviours by a leading practitioner and scholar in the field. It is based on the gestalt view of the self-medicating dynamic as one of pattern repetition and difficulty overcoming rigid patterns of response to sensory experience and life's routine demands.
This volume describes the most current gestalt approaches to treating substance abuse and other self-medicating behaviors by a leading practitioner and scholar in the field. It is based on the gestalt view of the self-medicating dynamic as one of pattern repetition and difficulty overcoming rigid patterns of response to sensory experience and life's routine demands.

The book provides a practical model for helping clients with the gamut of self-medicating behaviors-substance and alcohol abuse, overeating, gambling, overworking, rage, and others-and describes a recovery program as a system created to change one's lifestyle over time through the development of disciplines that ultimately shape one's life. The volume will also be helpful to therapists in other modalities as an alternative therapy when treating self-medicating clients, as well as a spiritual alternative to the 12-step approach.

Key Features:

Applies current gestalt therapy approaches to the spectrum of addictive behaviors
Provides practical treatment models for self-medicating behaviors
Written by a prominent practitioner and scholar of gestalt therapy
Offers a spiritual alternative to the 12-step approach to recovery

Philip Brownell, MDiv, PsyD, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in North Carolina and Oregon and a Registered Psychologist in Bermuda. He is an ordained clergyman and writes a weekly column on integrative issues for The Royal Gazette, Bermuda's largest daily newspaper. He is currently a staff psychologist at Benedict Associates, Ltd., where he offers a broad range of assessment and counseling services to child, adolescent, and adult populations, including individual, couple, family, and group therapy. He is editor of the Handbook for Theory, Research, and Practice in Gestalt Therapy (2008), author of Gestalt Therapy: A Guide to Contemporary Practice (2010), Co-Editor of Continuity and Change: Gestalt Therapy Now (in press), Co-Editor of Gestalt!, the official journal of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (AAGT), a Consulting Editor at the European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy, and Co-Chair of the AAGT's Research Task Force. He is a member of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, the American Psychological Association, and the AAGT.

Preface



Acknowledgments



Introduction



PART I THE NEED TO CHANGE





1. The Nature of Addiction and Self-Medicating Behaviors

2. Just How Fixed Can One Get? The Nature of Recovery

3. The Will to Change


PART II: AN APPROACH TO TREATMENT





4. The Nature of Individual Experience

5. The Importance of Relationship

6. The Sense of the Situation

7. The Willingness to Experiment


PART III: A PROGRAM FOR CHANGING ONE’S LIFE





8. One’s World 107
9. The Role of Discipline in A Person’s World

10. Your Client’s Body—The Physical Horizon 131

11. Your Client’s Thought Life—The Cognitive Horizon

12. Your Client’s Emotions—The Affective Horizon

13. Your Client’s Relationships—The Relational Horizon

14. Your Client’s Ultimate Beliefs—The Spiritual Horizon


PART IV: PARADOXICAL CHANGE IN RECOVERY





15. Living in the Present

16. Working One’s Own Program

17. Trusting in the Process

18. Submitting to Community


Conclusion

Index

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 300 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Persönlichkeitsstörungen
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Suchtkrankheiten
ISBN-10 0-8261-0695-1 / 0826106951
ISBN-13 978-0-8261-0695-7 / 9780826106957
Zustand Neuware
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