Healing the Addicted Brain: The Revolutionary, Science-Based Alcoholism and Addiction Recovery Program
"New, scientifically-based approaches that recognize the biological basis of addiction have brought major advances in the treatment of addiction. Dr. Urschel is at the forefront of this treatment paradigm."
Dr. Larry Hanselka, Psychologist
The Proven Scientific Approach to Conquering Addiction and Defeating the Disease
Healing the Addicted Brain is a breakthrough
...morePaperback, 280 pages
Published
April 1st 2009
by Sourcebooks
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This is a book written for those who are suffering from addiction or those who are interested in creating a program to help the afflicted. While in some cases the book feels too much like an extension of positive psychology, it serves to give those on the road to recovery many many many different options/ideas for what to do to help ease the burden of cravings or other side-effects of previous addictive behaviors. If nothing else, this book helps the reader to understand definitively that addi...more
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Read this for a class. Good introduction to a relatively balanced approach to addictions recovery. I was expecting it to be more academic in tone, but it's geared toward an average reader, rather than a student or professional in the field. Beware, it's one of those heavily branded books where the author refers to his "brand" at least once a chapter...
I learned a lot from the first third of the book and I learned some from the rest. The majority of the book would be really helpful for the addict. There are alot of ideas and workbook things that you can downlowd from the website. If the addict will do them I could see the benefit.
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Alcohol addiction is a chronic, treatable disease of the brain; this book presents step-by-step guidelines for staying sober and preventing relapse. This information presented in the book is based on the science of addiction and employing pharmaceutical interventions; not the spiritual surrender often promoted as the single path to recovery.
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