Addiction, Attachment, Trauma and Recovery - The Power of Connection

Understanding addiction is no longer just about understanding neurons or genes, broken brain functioning, learning or faulty choices. Oliver J. Morgan provides a fresh take on addiction and recovery by presenting a more inclusive framework than traditional understanding. Cutting- edge work in attachment, interpersonal neurobiology and trauma is integrated with ecological-systems thinking to provide a consilient and comprehensive picture of addiction.

Humans are born into connection and require nourishing relationships for healthy living. Adversities, however, bring fragmentation and create the conditions for ill health. They create vulnerabilities. In order to cope, individuals can turn to alternatives, "substitute relationships" that ease the pain of disconnection. These can become addictions.

Addiction, Attachment, Trauma, and Recovery presents a model, a method and a mandate. This new focus calls for change in the established ways we think and behave about addiction and recovery. It reorients understanding and clinical practice for mental health and addiction counsellors, psychologists and social workers, as well as for addicts and those who love them.

About the author

Oliver J Morgan, PhD, is Professor of Counseling & Human Services at the University of Scranton. He has spent thirty years researching, teaching, and writing about mental health and addiction. He is the 2020 Award Winner for the Independent Press Awards in the category of Addiction & Recovery.

Summary

A new model of addiction that incorporates neurobiology, social relationships and ecological systems.

Product details

• Authors: Oliver J. Morgan, Morgan Oliver J.
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2019
• EAN: 9780393713176
• ISBN: 978-0-393-71317-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 244 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 689 g
• Series: Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology; Norton Interpersonal Neurobiol
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Addiction & therapy, Psychotherapy, Addiction and therapy