Children of Alcoholism: The Struggle for Self and Intimacy in Adult Life

Children of Alcoholism: The Struggle for Self and Intimacy in Adult Life

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Author: Barbara L. WoodPublisher: NYU PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 0814792227ISBN 13: 978-0814792223In this sensitive and richly rewarding book Barbara L. Wood, a clinician with many years' experience working with adult children of the chemically dependent, gives clinicians informed and practical advice on how to treat the damaged self of these individuals. She offers strategies for intervention, along with step-by-step principles that tell the therapist how best to create an environment to help patients. Review "Informed and practical advice on how to successfully treat adult children of alcoholics. The author, a clinician with many years of experience working with adult children of the chemically dependent, uses object relations theory and Heinz Kohut's self psychology to explore the underlying reasons for these patients' dangerously low self-esteem." -EAP Digest"Neatly packaged, intelligently written, and intensely interesting. . .

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