Narrative Means to Sober Ends: Treating Addiction and Its AftermathWorking 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. |
Contents
A Sobriety of Literary Merit | 19 |
Letters of Invitation and Dismissal | 31 |
Bargaining Controlled Drinking and Other Negotiated Settlements | 61 |
Telegrams from God Reauthoring Spirituality | 72 |
Epilogues Letting Go | 88 |
DETOXING THE THEORY | 99 |
Becoming 12Step Literate | 101 |
STORIES FOR OUR TIMES | 143 |
Writing Home Applications to Family Therapy | 203 |
Sobering Up Ophelia Therapy with Children and Adolescents | 235 |
Narrating Our Own Stories Therapists in Recovery | 267 |
NO CONCLUSIONS | 323 |
A Less Convenient Fiction | 325 |
Muddling Through | 339 |
Notes | 345 |
References and Selected Bibliography | 361 |
Other editions - View all
Narrative Means to Sober Ends: Treating Addiction and Its Aftermath Jonathan Diamond Limited preview - 2012 |
Narrative Means to Sober Ends: Treating Addiction and Its Aftermath Jonathan Diamond (Ph. D.) No preview available - 2000 |
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