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Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Breaking the Cycle and Finding Hope - Brossura

Benton, Sarah Allen

 
9781442203907: Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Breaking the Cycle and Finding Hope
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ISBN 10: 1442203900 ISBN 13: 9781442203907
Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010

Sinossi

When people think of the 'typical' alcoholic, images of the 'fallen-down' drunk come to mind. Most do not think of professional men and women with successful careers, vibrant families, and active social lives. However, high-functioning alcoholics exist in great numbers, are unseen, and suffer no less than their struggling, failing counterparts. They include corporate presidents, politicians, teachers, tradesmen, law enforcement officials, lawyers, physicians, and even stay at home parents, who are by most accounts successful. Even as they have created lives most people would envy, the realities of alcoholism eventually strike, and recovery is just as arduous for high-functioning alcoholics as it is for lower functioning alcoholics. Benton reveals the extent of the problem, the challenges in recognizing it, the warning signs, and the methods for addressing it. Through research and interviews with both addiction experts and sober high-functioning alcoholics, she illustrates how, when, and why they become addicted, as well as the reasons their alcoholism is so hard to admit, detect, cope with, and overcome. Weaving her own story of alcoholism and recovery into the text in the form of past journal entries and reflective pieces, Benton takes us first hand into the lives of high-functioning alcoholics.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Sarah Allen Benton is a licensed mental health counselor and therapist at McLean Hospital in the "McLean Residence at the Brook" transitional living program for substance abuse treatment in Waltham, Massachusetts. Additionally, she works in private practice in the Boston area and speaks on the topic of high-functioning alcoholics to a variety of audiences. Resources on this topic are available at www.highfunctioningalcoholic.com.

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Editore
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1442203900
ISBN 13 
9781442203907
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
222
Contatto del produttore
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