Gestalt therapy for addictive and self-medicating behaviors
This volume describes the most current gestalt approaches to treating substance abuse and other self-medicating behaviors by a leading practitioner and scholar in the field. It is based on the gestalt view of the self-medicating dynamic as one of pattern repetition and difficulty overcoming rigid pa...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer
c2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798286106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Need to change
- Nature of addiction and self-medicating behaviors
- Just how fixed can one get? The nature of recovery
- Will to change
- Approach to treatment
- Nature of individual experience
- Importance of relationships
- Sense of the situation
- Willingness to experiment
- Program for changing one's life
- One's world
- Role of discipline in a person's world
- Your client's body: the physical horizon
- Client's thought life: the cognitive horizon
- Client's emotions: the affective horizon
- Client's relationships: the relational horizon
- Client's ultimate beliefs: the spiritual horizon
- Paradoxical change in recovery
- Living in the present
- Working one's own program
- Trusting in the process
- Submitting to community.
