The War Of The Gods In Addiction

Author : DAVID E. SCHOEN
Publisher : Chiron Publications
ISBN 13 : 1630519227
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Of The Gods In Addiction written by DAVID E. SCHOEN and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War of the Gods of Addiction, based on the correspondence between Bill W., one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, and Swiss psychiatrist, C.G. Jung, proposes an original, groundbreaking, psychodynamic view of addiction. Using insights from Jungian psychology, it demonstrates why the twelve steps of AA really work. It explores, through theoretical and clinical material, modern and ancient myths, and fairy tales, the crucial process of neutralizing the archetypal shadow / archetypal evil, an aspect of all true addictions. It also explains how dreams may be used in the diagnosis and treatment of addiction. This book bridges the longstanding gap between the mental health and twelve-step recovering communities in ways that significantly encourage mutual understanding and benefit. Previously published by Spring Journal.

Author : David Schoen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781630519216
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Of The Gods In Addiction written by David Schoen and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Jungian psychology, this book demonstrates why the 12 steps of AA work.

Author : Timothy McMahan King
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1513804081
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Addiction Nation written by Timothy McMahan King and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Opioids claim the lives of 115 people per day. One of them could have been me.” When a near-fatal illness led his doctors to prescribe narcotics, media consultant Timothy McMahan King ended up where millions of others have: addicted. Eventually King learned to manage pain without opioids—but not before he began asking profound questions about the spiritual and moral nature of addiction, the companies complicit in creating the opioid epidemic, and the paths toward healing and recovery. We have become a society not only damaged by addiction but fueled by it. In Addiction Nation, King investigates the ways that addiction robs us of freedom and holds us back from being fully human. Through stories, theology, philosophy, and cultural analysis, King examines today’s most common addictions and their destructive consequences. In stark yet intimate prose, he looks not only at the rise of opioid abuse but at policy, pain, virtue, and habit. He also unpacks research showing patterns of addiction to technology, stress, and even political partisanship. Addiction of any kind dims the image of God and corrupts who we were created to be. Addiction Nation nudges us toward healing from the ravages of addiction and draws us toward a spirituality sturdy enough to sate our deepest longings.

Author : Mary Addenbrooke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136739211
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survivors of Addiction written by Mary Addenbrooke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addiction is something that affects many different people from all walks of life and can be difficult for a therapist to treat, and the client to conquer. In this book fifteen people who have formerly had serious addictions speak about their experiences. Survivors of Addiction draws on first-hand narratives to provide an overview of how and why people become addicted, and explores what happens after the addiction is left behind. Divided into four sections it covers: being caught up in addiction how and why users stop being addicted the early days after surviving addiction long-term outcomes. By considering psychodynamic and Jungian perspectives as well as the clinical vignettes, this book examines the process of recovery from addiction. It will be key reading for therapists, clinicians and healthcare workers who encounter addictions in their day to day professions and will also be of great interest to those who are, or have been addicted, and their families.

Author : James Broderick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000920585
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Psychology through Symbols written by James Broderick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Two of The History of Psychology through Symbols continues a groundbreaking approach of using symbols to deepen the understanding of psychological history as well as the importance of how one lives, an emphasis on engagement with symbols and with specific exercises, called emancipatory opportunities, to apply the lessons of psychological history to daily life. From the birth of modern psychology in the laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt, Volume Two discusses how the early theories of voluntarism, structuralism, evolution, and pragmatism influenced the modern development of psychology. The importance of making unconscious shadow forces in science conscious is explored through the impact of the eugenic movement, the controversies surrounding the development of psychological testing, and current research biases in psychology. Volume Two describes how clinical psychology emerged as a powerful profession in mental health care. The Four Forces of Psychology are explored through their natural and hermeneutic science influences. Psychoanalytic and Jungian analytical psychology comprise the first force, behaviorism the second force, humanistic-existential the third force, and transpersonal psychology the fourth force that includes a groundbreaking discussion of psychedelic history and research that could revolutionize mental health and drug and alcohol treatment. Rejecting that science transcends historical events, this volume provides a political, socioeconomic, and cultural context for modern psychology and all Four Forces of Psychology. This book is ideal for those seeking a dynamic and engaging way of learning about or teaching the history of psychology and would also be of interest to students, practitioners, and scholars of science, philosophy, history and systems, religious studies, art, and mental health and drug and alcohol treatment, as well as those interested in applying the lessons of history to daily life.

Author : Paul Levy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644114119
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wetiko written by Paul Levy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Explores how wetiko covertly operates both out in the world and within our minds and how it underlies every form of self-destruction, both individual and collective • Reveals how wetiko’s power lies in our blindness to it and examines how people across the ages have symbolized wetiko to help see it and heal it • Examines the concept of wetiko as it appears in the teachings of the Kabbalah, Hawaiian Kahuna shamanism, mystical Christianity, and the work of C. G. Jung In its Native American meaning, wetiko is an evil cannibalistic spirit that can take over people’s minds, leading to selfshness, insatiable greed, and consumption as an end in itself, destructively turning our intrinsic creative genius against our own humanity. Revealing the presence of wetiko in our modern world behind every form of destruction our species is carrying out, both individual and collective, Paul Levy shows how this mind-virus is so embedded in our psyches that it is almost undetectable--and it is our blindness to it that gives wetiko its power. Yet, as Levy reveals in striking detail, by recognizing this highly contagious mind parasite, by seeing wetiko, we can break free from its hold and realize the vast creative powers of the human mind. Levy explores how artists, philosophers, and spiritual traditions across the ages have been creatively symbolizing this deadly pathogen of the psyche so as to help us see it and heal it. He examines the concept of wetiko as it appears in the teachings of the Kabbalah, Hawaiian kahuna shamanism, Buddhism, and mystical Christianity and through esoteric concepts like egregores, demons, counterfeiting spirits, and psychic vampires. He reveals how visionary thinkers such as C. G. Jung, Sri Aurobindo, Philip K. Dick, Colin Wilson, Nicolas Berdyaev, and Rene Girard each point to wetiko in their own unique and creative way. He explores how the projection of the shadow self--scapegoating --is the underlying psychological mechanism fueling wetiko and examines wetiko in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, showing that we can reframe the pandemic so as to receive the lessons and opportunities embedded in it. Revealing how the power of imagination can cure the wetiko mind-virus, Levy underscores how important it is for each of us to bring forth the creative spirit within us, which helps shed the light of consciousness on wetiko, taking away its power over us while simultaneously empowering ourselves.

Author : Torsten Kolind
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473944198
Total Pages : 743 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Drug & Alcohol Studies written by Torsten Kolind and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume handbook on the subject of drugs and alcohol.

Author : Michael Cowl Gordon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538183277
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twelve Step Pathway written by Michael Cowl Gordon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the hero's journey as the path on which to travel for overcoming addiction and crisis and rescuing your own story. This is a book about becoming heroic. A hero is a person who faces great danger, overcomes incalculable odds, and accomplishes that which would have been thought (especially by the hero) to be impossible to achieve. Considering the fear and pain that a person must experience in such an adventure, it is a role that few would desire for themselves. And yet, more of us find ourselves in circumstances demanding heroism than one might imagine. In fact, people who are never called upon to be heroic at some point in their lives are in the minority, if they exist at all. This is not a book for people who might want to become heroic someday. It is for people who are in the midst of a crisis, and who must make a decision about whether they are going to face their situation, survive, rise above themselves, and share their newfound knowledge with others who may need salvation. And it is for those who are already traveling such a journey and who would like to gain a new understanding of themselves, what their journey was and is about, and why it is so important. Using the twelve step framework for understanding the inner work a person must do in order to overcome addiction, Michael Cowl Gordon walks readers through the journey to inner salvation and peace. Using the hero's journey as the path on which to travel through these steps, he uncovers the deep work that it takes to be the hero in your own story.

Author : Ben Young
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 0830781250
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survive the Day written by Ben Young and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storms in life are inevitable. Eventually everyone faces one. Sometimes difficult circumstances continue with no end in sight while prayers for miracles seem to go unanswered. For the past three decades, pastor Ben Young has worked with families and individuals struggling to cope with the harsh realities of major life crisis. He also knows personally what it’s like to endure an ongoing storm. Through his own trials, he has learned not only to survive each dark day, but to live every day in ways that make a person stronger, wiser, and more at peace.

Author : Gage
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457508478
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women in Storage Club written by Gage and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Women in Storage Club is a celebration of every woman and a call for an awakening into our true selves. Bring your heart and soul into this book and you will be transformed." Mimi Guarneri MD FACC, Author; The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret of Healing Medical Director Scripps Integrative Clinic "I can't say enough about the timeless wisdom, Neuroimaginal tools, spiritual exercises and practices found within the pages of this stunningly beautiful book." Linda Star Wolf, PhD, author of Visionary Shamanism, Shamanic Breathwork: Journey Beyond the Self; Shamanic Mysteries of Ancient Egypt; Shamanic Egyptian Astrology. "Buy one for you and all the women you love " Karen Ely, LCSW author, Daring to Dream and international retreat leader Find out who you are today. Let go of who you were yesterday. The book is a map for the journey of self-discovery. Life events occur that wake you up. If you pay attention, you can move out of the fog of security and into a life of your dreams. These are stories of contentment, upheaval and liberation and how to move through your ever changing life gracefully and happily. As a caterpillar goes through its metamorphosis transforming into a butterfly, so we all go through stages of change. We seldom plan for change, we fear it and hold tightly to who we think we are. Resistance to change is normal. Calling, Crisis, Clearing and Clarity are the four stages illuminated in the book. Through stories and exercises you will learn how to see your life as a gift and to live fully. Nita is a psychotherapist, teacher and retreat facilitator. She co-created with Lee Lipsenthal MD, the Healer Within retreats and the Neuroimaginal Institute along with Shannon Simonelli, PhD. www.neuroimaginalinstitute.com. She is a mother and grandmother, as well as a successful leader in her field. Nita radically transformed her life after a crisis catapulted her out of her comfort zone. She has been helping women make similar changes through her work nationally and internationally. She helps women from all walks of life find their inner voice and make changes that bring joy and peace to their lives."