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Author Abraham Twerski reveals how self-deceptive thought can undermine self-esteem and threaten the sobriety of a recovering individuals and offers hope to those seeking a healthy and rewarding recovery.
In addiction, a person with a substance use disorder undergoes a negative change in thinking and behavioral patterns. A person’s character is overthrown by addictive thinking: displacement, projection, shame, and hypersensitivity are addiction’s survival mechanisms. With Addictive Thinking, both addicts and loved ones familiarize themselves with these addictive signatures and more, and begin the fight for recovery.
With more than 200,000 copies of Addictive Thinking sold worldwide, the eminent Abraham Twerski, M.D., outlines the destructive and terrifying illogic that marries a person with a substance use disorder to his addiction. “Stinking thinking” and irrational thought are byproducts of addiction and they only worsen with time. Twerski, with a deep psychological understanding, steps in to explain and contextualize all of the actions that arise from addictive thinking.
It might be easier to point at abnormal behavior from an addict and simply think, “there she goes again.” But there is reason and consistency underneath the pandemonium. If nothing is learned, if nothing is done, an addict’s rock bottom will continue to sink. By educating oneself about the addictive illogic and its reasoning, one will understand why the person behaves as she does and how everyone in her life becomes controlled by addiction. Then control can be taken back.
From the Publisher
A Detailed View of the Addicted Psyche
A person might think they understand addiction inside-and-out, having lived alongside the disease and suffering the consequences for much of their life. But Abraham Twerski’s, MD, concise, empathetic language immediately opens a new world unto the reader, where the illogic of addiction finally makes sense, as Twerski provides reliable bursts of insight into the thought, behavior and relational patterns that necessarily exist for addiction to survive.
This is an absolute must-read for anyone who’s experienced addiction firsthand or through family, friends or loved ones.
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing; Second edition (April 30, 1997)
Language : English
Paperback : 156 pages
ISBN-10 : 1568381387
ISBN-13 : 978-1568381381
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 5.42 x 0.4 x 8.4 inches
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