The Road to Fellowship: The Role of the Emmanuel Movement and the Jacoby Club in the Development of Alcoholics Anonymous (Hindsfoot foundation series on the history of alcoholism treatment)

The Road to Fellowship: The Role of the Emmanuel Movement and the Jacoby Club in the Development of Alcoholics Anonymous (Hindsfoot foundation series on the history of alcoholism treatment)

The Emmanuel Movement and the Jacoby Club, founded in Boston in 1906 and 1909, were enormously popular movements, which had thirty years of impressive success in treating alcoholics. Like Alcoholics Anonymous, they were also based on fellowship among recovering alcoholics and involved a synthesis between lay psychological counseling and spirituality. Professor Dubiel shows us the many dimensions of that fascinating world of early twentieth century thought, which supplied such an important part of the cultural seedbed out of which the founders of A.A. gathered their ideas.He also traces the indirect influence of the Emmanuel Movement on early A.A. through Rowland Hazard III and Richard R. Peabody, and the more direct influence of the Jacoby Club through early Boston A.A., which began in 1940 in the Jacoby Club quarters at 159 Newbury Street and was originally linked to them rather than the Oxford Group. The influence of this Boston-style A.A. was subsequently passed on to the rest of the United States through the second most published A.A. author, Richmond Walker and his Twenty-Four Hours a Day book.

  • ASIN: 059530740X
  • ISBN: 059530740X
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The Higher Power of the Twelve-Step Program: For Believers & Non-Believers (Hindsfoot Foundation Series on Spirituality and Theology)

The Higher Power of the Twelve-Step Program: For Believers & Non-Believers (Hindsfoot Foundation Series on Spirituality and Theology)

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  • ASIN: 0595199186
  • ISBN: 0595199186
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I'm Not Crazy: A workbook for teens with depression and bipolar disorder

I'm Not Crazy: A workbook for teens with depression and bipolar disorder

Teens!! It isn't fair that you have depression or bipolar disorder. You can continue along the same path, but chances are, if someone gave you this workbook, that path isn't the best. Working through these pages will help you understand what the heck everyone is talking about. You might even see some of your behaviors and thoughts. It has practical suggestions to help you cope. What does it hurt to try? Ultimately, it is your choice to work through the issues. But, it's kinda nice to see that you aren't the only one to have these crazy thoughts.

  • ASIN: 0595521185
  • ISBN: 0595521185
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The Doormat Syndrome

The Doormat Syndrome

If you have ever given to the point of exhaustion, felt dumped on or ripped off, and puzzled to find yourself coming back for more; if you are involved with people who dont appreciate you, if you equate love with doing for others, you may be experiencing The Doormat Syndrome.Are you.....a people pleaser?addicted to dysfunctional love relationships?preoccupied with meeting the needs of others?hooked into feeling good by pleasing someone else?blame yourself when things go wrong?feel your self sacrifices are not appreciated?have trouble accepting love?There is no fix like the fix of trying to fix someone who is perceived to be broken! That is the heavy part. Now for the lightness, cheer and happiness part. What has been learned can be unlearned!

  • ASIN: 0595160603
  • ISBN: 0595160603
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SNATCHED FROM THE FIRE!: Breast Cancer, Addiction, and Religious Oppression on the Path to Spiritual Freedom

SNATCHED FROM THE FIRE!: Breast Cancer, Addiction, and Religious Oppression on the Path to Spiritual Freedom

Jayna Gieber invites us on an unflinching journey, delving deep to discover her own true nature. Drawing on diverse spiritual traditions and an intimate connection to the natural world to come into her power, she enriches and inspires the reader. -Ingrid Dankmeyer, Renewing the Countryside: WashingtonI was riveted by this compelling account of healing and transformation. Ms. Gieber is a master storyteller! She rouses her readers with glimmering insights on living life fully. -Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward, Love's Garden, Dharma teacher, tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, (www.thelotusinstitute.org)Jayna weaves tales from her life that mystify, challenge, and empower the reader. She offers us permission to rise from the ashes, trusting that, like Jayna, we will reveal a resurrection of lasting peace, joy and love. -Rev. Kathleen McKern Verigin, (www.triplespiral.info)

  • ASIN: 0595484603
  • ISBN: 0595484603
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A Path to Sobriety, The Inside Passage: A Common Sense Book on Understanding Alcoholism and Addiction

A Path to Sobriety, The Inside Passage: A Common Sense Book on Understanding Alcoholism and Addiction

This is a sensitive book, rich in understanding and common sense. It will put the reader in touch with what it is like to be an addictive person, and what must be done to bring the person back from being an outcast. As the author explains in a respectful way, how the afflicted feels, he includes, biological, psychosocial, and family damage caused by the chemicals being used. His effect is to created ways to deal with addiction, along with new possibilities. This book can be helpful to all who are involved in the world of addiction; it is straight forward. "This book is an ultimate guide to substance abuse and addiction; a powerhouse for preventing relapse and curing the disease you have in alcoholism or drugs. It shows you a path to reality." Dalila Feba Tapia Author/Translator Lima, Peru

  • ASIN: 0595263232
  • ISBN: 0595263232
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The War on Drugs-The Worst Addiction of All: The Worst Addiction of All

The War on Drugs-The Worst Addiction of All: The Worst Addiction of All

This book is a re-thinking of the destructive effects of prohibition, the so-called "War On Drugs". It shows the fallacies of our present policies and the impossibility of winning a war in which the government has taken both sides, one overtly and the other covertly. This book also shows the terrible destructive human price that we as a country are paying to sustain this ineffective, cannibalistic and destructive set of punitive laws we now live under. The war on drugs is the contemporary moral equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition, and it is as well a huge multi-billion dollar tax-payer subsidy to organized crime.

  • ASIN: 0595247008
  • ISBN: 0595247008
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Unearthed: Digging the Jewels of Sobriety from the Trenches of Addiction

Unearthed: Digging the Jewels of Sobriety from the Trenches of Addiction

Patricia Monasmith knew something needed to change when she woke up handcuff ed to a hospital bed in Hearn, Texas, after overdosing on valium and drinking a case of beer. She began the painful process of recovery and found her way to the Lord, becoming a speaker, teacher, and counselor's assistant who teaches groups at a drug and alcohol facility. Now she seeks to continually sow seeds for the Lord and help her fellow Christians fight the good fight of faith as she teaches spiritual warfare seminars and hopes to complete her degree as a minister. Her goals also include building a house for women in ministry called The Esther House. This book shares her personal stories of how she overcame and encourages others to fight the battle of addiction; That they may hold to, what she feels, is their only hope of being Unearthed. Only Jesus Christ can dig the jewels of sobriety from the trenches of addiction.

  • ASIN: 145028308X
  • ISBN: 145028308X
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Misunderstanding Addiction: Overcoming Myth, Mysticism, and Misdirection in the Addictions Treatment Industry

Misunderstanding Addiction: Overcoming Myth, Mysticism, and Misdirection in the Addictions Treatment Industry

If one tries to imagine the amounts of money that have been spent by federal and state governments, coupled with what has been spent by private citizens in battling substance abuse over the last thirty years, it would amount to an almost unimaginable figure. There have been many books written that offer criticism regarding the traditional twelve-step treatment approaches to addiction. The problem has been that most of these efforts have failed to offer a viable alternative to traditional treatment. Those that have attempted to do so have merely suggested that singular treatment strategies, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, etc., should be implemented in conjunction with traditional treatment. Misunderstanding Addiction outlines a more holistic treatment method that can be implemented in a variety of environmental contexts that do not require patients to be institutionalized for them to be effective. Misunderstanding Addiction has the potential to radically alter the way that addictions are treated in this country. At a time when healthcare is foremost in the thoughts of our nation's citizens, Misunderstanding Addiction offers a timely and important look at how addiction treatment should be undertaken now and in the future to ensure an effective outcome for the patient.

  • ASIN: 1450207774
  • ISBN: 1450207774
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On the Military Firing Line in the Alcoholism Treatment Program: The Air Force Sergeant Who Beat Alcoholism and Taught Others to Do the Same

On the Military Firing Line in the Alcoholism Treatment Program: The Air Force Sergeant Who Beat Alcoholism and Taught Others to Do the Same

An insightful, very readable book. The father of military alcoholism treatment tells about his own life and recovery from alcoholism, and describes how he set up the first officially sanctioned military treatment programs for alcoholics in the 1940s and 50s, when the Alcoholics Anonymous movement was first spreading across the United States. A survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, he almost died after the war from his own out-of-control drinking. Using his own recovery as a guide, he persuaded the Air Force to appoint him full time to working with other alcoholics. The success story which he and psychiatrist Dr. Louis Jolyon West related in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1956 was distributed all across the country by the National Council on Alcoholism.If you think that you may have a problem with alcohol or drugs yourself, this book can save your life. The author describes in simple terms the processes which drive people to drink and use drugs, and the route to recovery. He talks about genetics, physical addiction, and the social and psychological pressures which produce subconscious conflicts and massive guilt in alcohol and drug abusers. For mental health professionals, he discusses the relationship between the twelve step program and basic psychiatric principles, and shows how the professionals and the A.A. and N.A. groups can work together to produce impressive recovery rates.This A.A. old-timer (fifty-five years sober) also talks about his early mentor Mrs. Marty Mann, the first woman to gain long-term sobriety in A.A. He describes his conversations with Sister Ignatia and the good old-timers in Akron, Ohio, his work with the noted alcohol researcher E. M. Jellinek at the Yale School of Alcohol Studies, and the way early A.A. meetings were organized and conducted. His book is a lasting monument to those early years, when it was first discovered that alcoholics could be saved.

  • ASIN: 0595283829
  • ISBN: 0595283829
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