Narrative Means to Sober Ends - Jonathan Diamond

Narrative Means to Sober Ends

Treating Addiction and Its Aftermath
Buch | Hardcover
386 Seiten
2000
Guilford Publications (Verlag)
978-1-57230-566-3 (ISBN)
103,45 inkl. MwSt
Illuminates the devastating power of addiction and describes an array of innovative approaches to facilitating clients' recovery. Including many creative techniques formed by interweaving concepts and techniques.
Working with clients who abuse drugs or alcohol poses formidable challenges to the clinician. Addicted persons are often confronting multiple, complex problems, from the denial of the addiction itself, to legacies of early trauma or abuse, to histories of broken relationships with parents, spouses, and children. Making matters more confusing, the treatment field is too often splintered into different approaches, each with its own competing claims. This eloquently written book proposes a narrative approach that builds a much-needed bridge between family therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and addictions counseling. Demonstrated are innovative, flexible ways to help clients form new understandings of what has happened in their lives, explore their relationships to drugs and alcohol, and develop new stories to guide and nourish their recovery.

Jonathan Diamond, PhD, received his doctorate from Smith College School of Social Work, his MSW from the University of Connecticut, and his postgraduate training in marital and family therapy at the Brattleboro Family Institute in Brattelboro, Vermont. His previous experience includes establishing and directing outpatient substance abuse and inpatient dual diagnosis treatment programs for children, adolescents, adults, and their families. Dr. Diamond has been teaching and training in the fields of addiction and psychotherapy for the past 15 years. He is currently in private practice in Northampton and Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Prologue
Introduction: Remembering Addiction
I. Writing for Our Lives
1. A Sobriety of Literary Merit
2. Letters of Invitation and Dismissal
3. Bargaining: Controlled Drinking and Other Negotiated Settlements
4. Telegrams from God: Reauthoring Spirituality
5. Epilogues: Letting Go
II. Detoxing the Theory
6. Becoming 12-Step Literate
III. Stories for Our Times
7. Trauma and Recovery
8. Reality Bytes: Narrating Food Addictions
9. Writing Home: Applications to Family Therapy
10. Sobering Up Ophelia: Therapy with Children and Adolescents
11. Narrating Our Own Stories: Therapists in Recovery
IV: No Conclusions
12. A Less Convenient Fiction
Postscript: Muddling Through

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.8.2000
Reihe/Serie The Guilford Family Therapy Series
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Suchtkrankheiten
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-57230-566-5 / 1572305665
ISBN-13 978-1-57230-566-3 / 9781572305663
Zustand Neuware
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