Last Call - Alcoholism and Recovery

Informationen zum Autor Paul R. McHugh, M.D., is the Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, the former director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the coauthor of The Perspectives of Psychiatry , also available from Johns Hopkins. He was selected by President George W. Bush to sit on the Presidential Council on Bioethics and by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to be on their National Review Board for the elimination of the sexual abuse of children by clergy. Klappentext Last Call is the first book, outside of Alcoholics Anonymous' own publications, to offer an insider's perspective on how and why AA is the most effective alcoholism treatment program in the world. Using powerful first-person narratives -- composites of many individual experiences with the disease and recovery -- Hedblom demystifies the meetings, the twelve steps, the Promises, and the sponsors. Zusammenfassung Through the stories of people who have escaped the tyranny of alcoholism with the help of AA! Hedblom shows that the road to recovery is a journey of self-discovery! change! and hope.

Product details

• Authors: Jack H Hedblom, Jack H. Hedblom
• Assisted by: Paul R. McHugh (Foreword)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2008
• EAN: 9780801886775
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8677-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Coping with drug & alcohol abuse, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems