Resources

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Readings

About Addiction

Clemmens, Michael Craig, Ph.D. Getting Beyond Sobriety: Clinical Approaches to Long Term Sobriety. Analytic Press, 2005.

Johnson, Vernon E. I’ll Quit Tomorrow.  Harper and Row, 1990.

Knapp, Caroline. Drinking: A Love Story. Delta, 1996.

Wallace, John. Alcoholism: New Light on the Disease. Edgehill Publications, 1985.

Gorski, Terence T. and Merlene Miller. Staying Sober: A Guide for Relapse Prevention. Herald Publishing House, 1988.

About Intervention

Jay, Jeff and Debra. Love First. Hazelden, 2000.

Johnson, Vernon E. Intervention. Johnson Institute Books, 1986.

Landau, Dr. Judith and James Garrett. Invitational Intervention. Book Surge Publishing, 2006.  

For Those Affected by Someone Else’s Addiction

Ackerman, Robert J.  Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics. Health Communications, Inc., 2002.

Ackerman, Robert J.  Silent Sons: A Book for and About Men. Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Beattie, Melody. Codependent No More. Hazelden, 1987.

Black, Claudia. It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up with Addiction. Hazelden, 2002.

Black, Claudia. My Dad Loves Me; My Dad Has a Disease. MAC Publishing, 1997.

Brown, Stephanie and Virginia Lewis. The Alcoholic Family in Recovery. The Guilford Press,1999.

Hastings, Jill M. and Marion H. Typpo. An Elephant in the Living Room. Hazelden, 1994.

Knapp, Caroline. Drinking: A Love Story. Delta, 1996.

Twerski, Abraham. Caution: Kindness Can be Dangerous to the Alcoholic. John Wiley Publishing, 1981.

Twerski, Abraham. Life’s Too Short: Pull the Plug on Self-Defeating Behaviors and Turn on the Power of Self-Esteem. St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Twerski, Abraham. When Do the Good Things Start? St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

Wegscheider-Cruse, Sharon. Choicemaking: for Codependents, Adult Children and Spirituality Seekers. Health Communications, Inc., 1985.

Wegscheider-Cruse, Sharon. Another Chance: Hope and Health for the Alcoholic Family. Science and Behavior Books, 1989.

Woititz, Janet Gehringer. Struggle for Intimacy. Health Communications, Inc., 1985.

Therapy and Personal Growth Related

Chopra, Deepak. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. Amber-Allen Publishing, Inc., 1994.

Hollis, James. Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up Gotham, 2005.

Maxwell, John C. Failing Forward. Nelson Books, 2000.

Mitchell, Stephen A. Can Love Last? The Fate of Romance Over Time. W. W. Norton &  Company, 2002.

Thesenga, Susan. The Undefended Self. Pathwork Press, 2001.

Tolle, Eckhart. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. New World Library,1999.

Vaughan, Susan C., M.D. The Talking Cure. Holt, Henry and Company, 1998.

Zweig, Connie and Jeremiah Abrams, Editors. Meeting the Shadow. Jeremy P.Tarcher/Putnam, 1991.