Narrative Means to Sober Ends: Treating Addiction and Its Aftermath. Questo articolo non è disponibile.Narrative Means to Sober Ends: Treating Addiction and Its Aftermath

Working with clients who abuse drugs or alcohol poses formidable challenges to the clinician. Addicted persons are often confronting multiple, complex problems, from the denial of the addiction itself, to legacies of early trauma or abuse, to histories of broken relationships with parents, spouses, and children. Making matters more confusing, the treatment field is too often splintered into different approaches, each with its own competing claims. This eloquently written book proposes a narrative approach that builds a much-needed bridge between family therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and addictions counseling. Demonstrated are innovative, flexible ways to help clients form new understandings of what has happened in their lives, explore their relationships to drugs and alcohol, and develop new stories to guide and nourish their recovery.

Jonathan Diamond, PhD, received his doctorate from Smith College School of Social Work, his MSW from the University of Connecticut, and his postgraduate training in marital and family therapy at the Brattleboro Family Institute in Brattelboro, Vermont. His previous experience includes establishing and directing outpatient substance abuse and inpatient dual diagnosis treatment programs for children, adolescents, adults, and their families. Dr. Diamond has been teaching and training in the fields of addiction and psychotherapy for the past 15 years. He is currently in private practice in Northampton and Greenfield, Massachusetts.