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Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love

52 reviews
Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Miller, ...

HarperOne, 1992

An Addict all the same
Let's get serious. Love Addiction, Avoidance Addiction, Alcohol Addiction, Drug Addiction, Gambling Addiction, Food Addiction. Don't fool yourself, it's all the same. It's a painful compulsive behavior. It's a sickness and you'll need help. Pia Mellody does a great job of explaining the "disease" and laying out steps to overcome it. Take her advice. Do the work. I am a happier healthy person ...

Is It Love or Is It Addiction?

14 reviews
Brenda Schaeffer

Hazelden, 2009

This book is bound to become a classic!
After suffering a painful, obsessive, unrequited love. I found this book that helps me a great deal. It opened my eyes, and helped me find the source of this addiction tracing way back into my childhood. While everyone's source of love addiction is different, this book gives you a tool to understand the root of your own, buried deep in subconscious, and usually stem from childhood ...

Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions (Plus)

52 reviews
Gerald G. May

HarperOne, 2007

For everyone, and probably not entirely what you expect
Drugs, sex, and drinking come immediately to mind when we hear the word addiction, and often times properly so. While the author does a great job of shedding new light on these types of addictions he also takes the reader to a broader perspective that includes all of the addictions in our lives, whether we have ever thought of them in that light or not. Further he helps gain a better ...

Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction

69 reviews
Patrick J. Carnes

Hazelden, 2001

Out of the Shadows
This book was recommended by our marriage counselor for my husband. He refused to read it.. but I did. Unfortunately, or fortunately.. we are now divorcing. This book helped me to see a pattern of behaviors that were presented by my husband. It offered a written understanding of his past and behaviors. He wasn't ready for/or is not capable of change for his own self. However, it allowed me an ...

Beat Sugar Addiction Now!: The Cutting-Edge Program That Cures Your Type of Sugar Addiction and Puts You on ...

1 review
Jacob Teitelbaum M.D., Chrystle Fiedler

Fair Winds Press, 2010

These scientifically proven strategies actually work!
Carbohydrate craving is a major cause of obesity. Dr. Teitelbaum is the world's foremost chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia expert and has encountered the four main causes of sugar and carbohydrate addiction in many of these patients. The four main types of sugar addiction are easily identified with the questionaires in this workbook. More importantly, effective treatments for the four main ...

Hope After Betrayal: Healing When Sexual Addiction Invades Your Marriage

14 reviews
Meg Wilson

Kregel Publications, 2007

Great book
I have read dozens of books on sexual addiction. This one had brought me the most comfort and hope. If you have been devasted by this addiction, this is the book for you. It has been the only book that has articulated the emotions that I have experienced. I felt devastated, hopeless, and lost. This book offered insights that helped me to move forward. While this book does examine the ...

How to Break Your Addiction to a Person

52 reviews
Howard Halpern

Bantam, 2003

Only Read This Book If You Seriously Want Out Of An Addictive Relationship
"Just because I hurt so much doesn't mean I love him. It means I'm an addict in withdrawal." ~ pg. 190 The goal of "How to Break Your Addiction to a Person" is to get you out of an addictive relationship. This book is filled with revealing diary entries and stories of unhealthy relationships. While many of the examples explore the joy, love and ecstasy in staying with the person you "love," ...

Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction

10 reviews
Mark Laaser

Zondervan, 2004

Straight forward and very practical
This book hits the nail on the head by dealing with the roots of sexual addiction and giving practical steps toward recovery. If you are ready to be free, then do the hard work of examining your childhood for any abuse or neglect, whether real or perceived, and you'll discover the lies you tell yourself to find comfort in impurity. This is where the real challenge is because we are so afraid of ...

Food Addiction: The Body Knows: Revised & Expanded Edition

40 reviews
Kay Sheppard

HCI, 1993

Confirms What My Body Has Said for Past 20 Years
I have repeatedly lost weight by cutting out processed foods - especially sweets. Each time I was losing weight by this method I had no cravings. Each time I 'fell off the wagon' by having JUST ONE dessert. For a short time I would 'control' my dessert intake - having one dessert a week - then gradually lose more and more 'control', eat more and more sweets, and regain my weight. Each time I ...

THE ALCOHOLISM AND ADDICTION CURE: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

84 reviews
Chris Prentiss

Power Pr, 2007

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
Dr. Prentiss gives rock solid evidence to what I have suspected for some time. That what is called alcoholism, is not the dead end that it has been called. But, a horrible symptom of problems which lie much deeper. A very worthwhile read for those involved in any way with addiction. Hope does indeed spring eternal.

The Addiction Counselor's Desk Reference

6 reviews
Robert Holman Coombs, William A. Howatt

Wiley, 2005

Overview of Addiction Counseling Right at the Clinician's Fingertips
The Addiction Counselor's Desk Reference is a comprehensive compendium of information about addictive disorders, their consequences, and treatment. This "desk reference" includes detailed definitions and practical illustrations of addiction-related terminology, addictive disorders and behaviors, descriptions of treatment models and techniques, as well as lists of relevant websites, government ...

The Addiction Treatment Planner (PracticePlanners?)

5 reviews
Robert R. Perkinson, Arthur E. Jongsma

Wiley, 2009

Great resource.
This book is awesome for many addictions, as well as addresses issues that are correlated to addiction, such as grief or past family trauma. It is ASAM oriented, so you can pick out what dimension you want to address. The verbage is concise and makes you sound real smart ;) It identifies the problem, gives goals, and recommends objectives w/strategies. Great for interns or anyone who can ...

Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone

32 reviews
Joyce Meyer

FaithWords, 2008

Awesome!!
Great book!! This book is practical in nature, while also very real and upfront. She, I think, captivates you, first by backing her information with GOD's word, then sharing her real life experiences. She gives you empowering words to repeat, as often as necessary, to yourself until it is engrained in your mind and spirit. If you don't get any type of help from this book, you should question ...

Anatomy of a Food Addiction: The Brain Chemistry of Overeating: An Effective Program to Overcome Compulsive ...

20 reviews
Anne Katherine

Gurze Books, 1996

The answer finally on my long long journey.
I have suffered with food addiction for most of my life. I have aggressively tackled it for the past 3. I have read more than 20 books on the subject ranging from addiction models to everything else out there that has been said. I have been exhausted and confused and failure after failure left me actually suicidal in my misery. Quite by accident I picked up this book and half bored began reading ...

The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment

3 reviews
Carlton K. Erickson

W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

From genetics of dependence to chapters on various ways the brain processes drugs in the body
Neuroscience is clarifying how drug and alcohol addictions are processed in the body - and how it can be treated, so any college-level collection and many a public library interested in the scientific process of addition will want The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment. It reviews the roles brain function and genetics play in addiction, exploring changes in the terminology and ...

Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover (The Guilford Substance Abuse Series)

5 reviews
Carlo C. DiClemente Phd

The Guilford Press, 2006

How people become addicted; how they recover.
This book, based upon the Prochaska and Norcross model of "stages of change" is a vital resource for the chemical dependency/abuse counselor, or anyone else who works with this population. The authors clearly delineate how a person becomes addicted (using the stages of change model- except in reverse), then moving on to the process of recovery. Contrary to an earlier review, I did not ...

7 Tools to Beat Addiction

13 reviews
Stanton Peele

Three Rivers Press, 2004

A great wake-up call
I've binge eaten for decades. This addiction has been an albatross around my neck all my adult life. I quit a 2-pack-a-day smoking habit 25 years ago and quitting smoking was nothing compared to trying to quit binge eating. Bingeing has kept me from living my life fully and has comprised my health. I've spent much of my life feeling like a member of the 'living dead.' I've tried every type of ...

Healing the Addicted Brain: The Revolutionary, Science-Based Alcoholism and Addiction Recovery Program

16 reviews
Harold Urschel

Sourcebooks, Inc., 2009

Healing the Addicted Brain - Powerful!
This book was brought to my attention on the Dr. Phil Show when I heard the author, Dr. Urschel, explain why he had written this powerful book. We, as a family, have been dealing with a 50 year old son who has tried so many times to stop his addiction to prescription drugs, mainly opiates. This all started, as do many, from an auto accident where he almost lost his left leg. I, as his ...

Willpower's Not Enough: Recovering from Addictions of Every Kind

18 reviews
Arnold M. Washton

Harper Paperbacks, 1990

Hugely Empowering - Great to Read with a Spouse!
Through the recent process of addiction identity in our family (sex/love/relationship addiction and food addiction, namely) my husband and I read this together. Without blame, and using many helpful real-life stories, it puts the reader easily in the shoes of an addict - the frustrations, self-desctruction, hopelessness, choiceless-ness, and then....finally...the hope. Especially for those ...

Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave : Finding Hope in the Power of the Gospel (Resources for Changing Lives)

20 reviews
Edward T. Welch

P & R Publishing, 2001

Excellent Book for those who love and Addict
Dr. Welch is a member of the faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, PA and part of the staff of CCEF. As a result, I expected to get a full helping of heart targeted counsel on addictions and sin. I was not disappointed. This is a must read for those who have addictions, love someone with addictions are is counseling someone with addictions. Beyond that is was helpful to me ...

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