Alcoholism Books

This is absolutely necessary for anyone who works in clinical or research settings regarding drugs of abuse. The biological explanations of drug action are written for entry level understanding of neuroscience; indeed, the entire text is very accessible and friendly. Some of the groupings of the drugs seem strange (e.g., including ketamine with the club drugs), but this is bound to happen-the drugs abused today are difficult to classify sometimes!

A great read-a true must have.

This book is a compilation of writings from Al-Anon members around the world on the subject of spirituality in its various forms. It includes pieces from several continents, and it has a lot of different slants on the topic. It's undogmatic and inclusive, and it has a lot of appealing contributions from unique individuals. The format mirrors the subject. While it's not a glossy book, it is laid out with plenty of white space and some nice graphics. It's an invitation for the reader to contemplate his or her own spiritual experience. It's simple, direct, and unaffected.

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This is a wonderful book for all people in recovery. You'll learn a proven method of prayer and meditation that you will return to again and again. I always faltered when trying to meditate-but this program helps me stay in the process and the benefits include an improved conscious contact with my higher power. Thanks Mike D. for this wonderful book.

It's rare to be able to say a book about magic is true to life, and even rarer to say that one can inspire you, one that makes you feel you're connected with everything around you when you go for a walk, and see the world in a different light.

This book does that, while telling a story that so many can relate to. Many think of witches as either insane, evil, a mix of those two- or one who molds the universe with the flick of her wand and some choice words.

Different, interesting, fun most of the time, with moments of seriousness thrown in, mind altering- I highly recommend the read. I've also read "Gifts of the Spirit" by the same author, completely different kind of book, but she's proving herself to be a quality writer in my opinion.

There is boy who's mom has a drinking problem and takes the power of it out on him. Through the book his mom goes to work at regular time and mood but then comes home at a later time and she is in a worse mood. But through her actions she notices what she was doing and apologizes but then does it again. Pretty soon it interferes with school activities and then he ignores God.

I thought it was an excellent book! Even though the family wasnt a real family I knew, I still felt bad. I am really greatful for my parents because they really care about me.

This is a comprehensive study of what the author asserts is an unacknowledged genre - the alcoholism movie. Norman K. Denzin is best known for his writings in addiction studies, including `The Alcoholic Self' [1987], and `The Alcoholic Society: The Alcoholic Self and Its Recovery' [1993]. Where this book differs from his other work is in its synthesis of methodologies -from cultural studies, historical sociology, psychoanalytic film theory - in addition to social psychology. It places the notion of `subjectivity' centre stage in arguing that cinematic representations offer multiple possibilities of identification and dis-identification to the viewer. This is a model that allows interactivity:- it is both reflective and generative of everyday social being and social consciousness. In this way, Denzin puts Raymond Williams' `structures of feeling' to good use.

The Hollywood alcoholism films analyzed span the period 1932-1990. Its start is not arbitrarily chosen as it marks both the death throes of Prohibition and the ascendance of Hays Code production constraints on Hollywood depictions. This typifies, as Denzin sees it, deep-rooted ambivalence and contradictions in American attitudes to alcohol. From the repeal of Prohibition through to the 1960s, the `Lost Generation' of alcoholic writers-turned-Hollywood-screenwriters influenced cinema representations. The leitmotif of hard drinking in their literary works has been written about extensively(see `The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction' John W Crowley 1994), yet contemporaneous film fictions are less well addressed. Denzin's `Shot by Shot' redresses the balance by meticulous scrutiny of movies as film texts per se. Through solid scholarship and thorough research, he maps the trajectory of the genre from anti-alcohol through AA influenced illness concept to contemporary dysfunctional family theory.

The section on the `double standards' in representations of female screen alcoholics is astutely handled, as is the Lacanian based section `The Cracked Mirror and the Alcoholic Self'. The most compelling argument Denzin has however lies in the insistence on the legitimacy of an `alcoholism genre' in cinema. The common strategy of attributing cinema texts to genres other than alcoholism ( e.g. `Harvey' and `Arthur' as light comedy, `Lady Sings the Blues' as biopic) operates as a form of denial, and parallels the lived experience of alcoholics and their families. Indeed Denzin cites the use of Hollywood alcoholism films in re-hab treatment centres - used to facilitate the individual's rupture of denial, and their own self-attribution as alcoholic. If anything, Denzin could have developed this a little further through differentiation in both lived experiences and representations of ruptured denial - the slow dawning of identification as well as the epiphanic moment of realization.

Denzin's examples are well chosen and justified: redemption narratives, popular fictions and film biography. One wonders what Denzin would make of some of the cinema releases since the book's publication. Redemption and recovery certainly do not figure in such films as `Leaving Las Vegas' (1995) or the explosively powerful British film `Nil by Mouth' (1997). . Non-American cinema is sadly outside the scope of Denzin's book - and one of the best British interdisciplinary books, `Images of Alcoholism' (British Film Institute 1979) is now out-of-print. The shift of focus from the cultural studies mainstays of age/race/class/gender to wider representations of `attribute' will no doubt ensure that others will follow Denzin's lead in re-evaluating the alcoholism film genre.

Good book for people who are unhappy in current job and or wanting change to make things better at work for themselves.

CET or cererbral electral stimulation works so well that drug treatment centers don't want to use it because it cuts into their profits. An electircal engineer, Bob Beck, designed the Brain Tuner(now called the Bio Tuner) which I believe is superior to the "black box" that Meg Patterson used so successfully on drug addicts to get them off of hard drugs without any withdrawl symptoms. That's quite an achivement. The Bio Tuner is produced by a Canadian company, SOTA, and the price for the newest model is only $195 plus shipping. When Beck was still alive he participated in a forum where he claimed that the Brain Tuner was used on a number of Alzheimers patients and most of them returned to work. Don't you know that the Unholy Trinity( big Pharma, the AMA and the FDA) would like to keep that a secret.

This book has now been released, and I wrote it. It is a departure from the other twelve titles I have written on the history of early A.A.'s spiritual roots and successes. However, a very grateful mother whose son recovered at the famous Alina Lodge under the tutelege of the legendary Gerry D. asked me to write about Gerry, the Lodge, and its unique long-term, non-permissive, structured residential rehab program. Geraldine is a veteran A.A., 90 years old, 51 years sober, and a strict disciplinarian. This is the story of her acclaimed program, unique methods, and unusual philosophy of treatment. Betty Ford, Dr. Abraham Twerski, and Col. Mel Schulstad (all veterans in the field) attest to Gerry's stature and unique program for the "reluctant to recover." People say, "if they can't make it elsewhere, send them to Alina Lodge." And this book will tell you why.