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My Addiction Recovery Reading List

Your serious search for an addiction treatment alternative to the 12-Step program brought you to my Website. I hope that some of the information I’ve provided about alcohol addiction and other addictions has been helpful to you. I applaud your courage and intelligence because I know it takes great mindfulness to actively seek out recovery options.

To assist you further in your quest to stop drinking or taking drugs, or to help a loved one acknowledge and deal with an addiction, I’ve compiled a listing of books that, I believe, provide valuable insight, support and encouragement. Reading is an excellent way to reinforce change and gain new ideas about life.

Of course, I invite you to contact me if you have further questions about my alternative addiction treatment.  Based on my own battle and successful recovery from alcohol addiction, as well as the repeated success I’ve seen in my clients, I know you are not powerless over your addictions. There is no such thing as one-size-fits-all in alcohol addiction treatment, as is traditionally preached. Modern research supports that there is no singular path to recovery. In fact, it is this one-size-fits-all paradigm that creates chronic relapse and a sense of powerlessness over alcohol and drugs.

The truth is that just because the 12-Step program does not work for you, it doesn’t mean that you are doomed. There are many other roads to recovery. The “Recovery Kick-Start” is designed to empower you with the knowledge of your options for recovery. You will be able to choose the best sequence of actions that fits your situation, personality, beliefs, and lifestyle goals.

In complete privacy and confidentiality, I will help you focus on a strategy and construct a solid plan that will help you jump-start your recovery.

Please contact me for a 15-minute consultation – and use the links below to support your desire to stop drinking or stop a drug addiction.

Alternative Addiction Recovery Strategies & Support

Reading to Take Control of Your Life

Addictions – General Readings

• Changing for Good – James O. Prochaska
• Recovery Options – Joseph Volpicelli, Maia Szalavitz
• Step Zero – Arnold M. Washton, Nannette Stone-Washton
• Addiction or Self Medication? The Truth – Louis F. Markert PhD, Manijeh Nikakhtar MD
• When AA Doesn’t Work For You – Albert Ellis
• The Habit Change Workbook – James Claiborn Ph.D., Cherry Pedrick R.N.
• Coming Clean : Overcoming Addiction WithoutTreatment – Robert Granfield, William Cloud
• The Heart of Addiction – Lance M. Dodes
• Sex, Drugs, Gambling, and Chocolate : A Workbook for Overcoming Addictions – A. Thomas Horvath
• Kill the Craving – Joseph, Ph.D. Santoro, Alfred Bergman, Robert Deletis
• Solutions Step by Step – Inso Berg
• Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug and Recovery Habits – James DeSena, Jeffrey A. Schaler, Joseph Gerstein

Alcohol

• Sober for Good – Anne Fletcher
• The SMALL Book – Jack Trimpy
• Rational Recovery – Jack Trimpy
• The Miracle Method – I. Berg
• How to Quit drinking Without AA – Jerry Dorsman
• Alcohol: How To Give It Up And Be Glad You Did – Phil Tate
• When AA Doesn’t Work For You – Ellis

Alcohol Moderation/Control/Reduction

• 7 Weeks to Safe Social Drinking – Donna J. Cornett
• Responsible Drinking – Rotgers, Kern, Hoeltzel
• Alternatives to Abstinence – Heather Ogilvie
• The Art of Moderation – John Michael, John Price
• Moderate Drinking – Audrey Kishline

Addiction Psychology/Controversies

• The Truth About Addiction and Recovery – Stanton Peele
• Heavy Drinking – Herbert Fingarette
• Addiction As A Choice – Jeffrey Shaffer
• The Meaning of Addiction – Stanton Peele
• Diseasing of America – Stanton Peele
• Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment – Stanton Peele

Behavior

• Think and Grow Rich – Napolean Hill
• Changing for Good – J. Prochaska, J. Norcross, C. DiClemente
• The Habit Change Workbook – J. Claiborn, C. Pedrick, J. Claiborn

Relapse

• Kicking Addictive Habits Once and for All

Feelings/Moods

• Managing Your Mind and Mood Through Food – Judith Wurtman
• Move Your Body, Tone Your Mood – Kate Hays
• Food and Mood – Elizabeth Somer
• Letting Go of Anger – Ronald T. Potter-Efron; Pat S. Potter-Efron
• The Feeling Good Handbook – David Burns
• Overcoming Anxiety – Helen Kennerly
• Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway – Susan Jeffers

Thoughts

• A Guide to Rational Living – Albert Ellis
• Learned Optimism – Martin Seligman
• Three Minute Therapy: Change your thinking and change your life – Edelstein/Steele

Self-Esteem

• How to Raise Your Self-Esteem – Nathaniel Brandon
• How to Win Friend and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• The Psychology of Self-Esteem – Nathaniel Brandon