Tao in Ten
Author: C Alexander Simpkins
Tao in Ten is a simple, enlightened guide to living a life of balance and harmony. It includes ten simple lessons, eachinspired by a principle of Taoism, which helps readers explore Taoist ideas, exercies, and meditations. Each lesson is demonstrated through Taoist exercises-some physical, some mental, and some spiritual. Readers will discover wu-wei, the act of nonaction; yin and yang, elements that are at once opposite yet the same; chi, our vital life energy; martial arts, as a means to nurture inner strength; as well as many other Taoist concepts.
Author Biography: Drs. C. Alexander PH.D and Annellen Simpkins Ph.D live in San Diego and are both psychologists who have specialized in studies of the mind. They have devoted many years to the study of hypnosis and have taught meditation skills to people of all ages.
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Coming Clean: Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment
Author: Robert Granfield
Despite the widely accepted view that formal treatment and twelve-step groups are essential for overcoming dependencies on alcohol and drugs, each year large numbers of former addicts quietly recover on their own, without any formal treatment or participation in self-help groups at all.
Coming Clean explores the untold stories of untreated addicts who have recovered from a lifestyle of excessive and compulsive substance use without professional assistance. Based on 46 in-depth interviews with formerly addicted individuals, this controversial volume examines their reasons for avoiding treatment, the strategies they employed to break away from their dependencies, the circumstances that facilitated untreated recovery, and the implications of recovery without treatment for treatment professionals as well as for prevention and drug policy.
Because of the pervasive belief that addiction is a disease requiring formal intervention, few training programs for physicians, social workers, psychologists, and other health professionals explore the phenomenon of natural recovery from addiction. Coming Clean offers insights for treatment professionals of how recovery without treatment can work and how candidates for this approach can be identified. A detailed appendix outlines specific strategies which will be of interest to addicted individuals themselves who wish to attempt the process of recovery without treatment.
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | Recovery without Treatment: An Introduction | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | Perspectives on Natural Recovery | |
| Ch. 2 | Slippin' into Darkness: Narratives of Use and Addiction | 33 |
| Ch. 3 | The Process of Recovery without Treatment | 61 |
| Ch. 4 | Circumventing Treatment and Salvaging the Self: Natural as Cultural Resistance | 99 |
| Ch. 5 | The Social Context of Recovery without Treatment | 130 |
| Pt. 2 | Implications of Natural Recovery | |
| Ch. 6 | Lessons for Practitioners from Self-Remitters | 159 |
| Ch. 7 | Conclusion: Addiction, Society, and Social Policy | 191 |
| Appendix | Implementing Natural Recovery: Suggestions for Personal Change | 223 |
| Notes | 251 | |
| Index | 289 | |
| About the Authors | 295 |
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