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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition  Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents’ expectations and win their ”love.” Alice Miller writes, ”When I used the word ’gifted’ in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb… Without this ’gift’ offered us by nature, we would not have survived.” But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth. Author: Alice Miller Paperback: 144 pages Company: Basic Books (1996-12-23) ISBN: 0465016901 List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $4.45 Used Price: $2.76 Healing The Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families  Have you ever heard of your inner child? Well, this is the classic book that started it all. In 1987, Charlie Whitfield's breakthrough concept of the child within?that part of us which is truly alive, energetic, creative and fulfilled?launched the inner child movement. Healing the Child Within describes how the inner child is lost to trauma and loss, and how by recovering it, we can heal the fear, confusion and unhappiness of adult life. Eighteen years and more than a million copies sold later, Healing the Child Within is a perennial selling classic in the field of psychology. And it is even more timely today than it was in 1987. Recent brain research, particularly on the effects of trauma on the brain of developing children, has supported Whitfield's intuitive understanding as a psychiatrist. About HCI Recovery Classics HCI's recovery backlist contains some of the most important and best-selling works in the recovery field. These books are still sought after today, selling more than 100,000 copies per year. Our new line of branded books features expanded editions of our top recovery titles, new introductions, updates on pertinent recent developments in the field, and contemporary new covers and packaging. Author: Charles L. Whitfield M.D. Paperback: 151 pages Company: Health Communications, Inc. (1987-04-01) ISBN: 0932194400 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $4.36 Used Price: $0.01 Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines  Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait -- but not one without hope.Author: Nic Sheff Hardcover: 336 pages Company: Ginee Seo Books (2008-02-19) ISBN: 1416913629 List Price: $16.99 Amazon Price: $9.72 Used Price: $9.49 How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics Author: Al-Anon Family Group Head Inc
Hardcover: 388 pages Company: Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc. (1995-07) ISBN: 0910034265 List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $16.50 Used Price: $3.42 One Child  Finally, a beginning...The time had finally come. The time I had been waiting for through all these long months that I knew sooner or later had to occur. Now it was here. She had surprised me so much by actually crying that for a moment I did nothing but look at her. Then I gathered her into my arms, hugging her tightly. She clutched onto my shirt so that I could feel the dull pain of her fingers digging into my skin. She cried and cried and cried. I held her and rocked the chair back and on its rear legs, feeling my arms and chest get damp from the tears and her hot breath and the smallness of the room. Author: Torey L. Hayden Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages Company: Avon (1981-05-01) (1981-05-01) ISBN: 0380542625 List Price: $7.99 Amazon Price: $3.75 Used Price: $3.80 The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse  The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and encouragement to every woman who, was sexually abused as a child -- and those who care about her. Although the effects of child sexual abuse are long-term and severe, healing is possible. The authors weave personal experience with professional knowledge to show the reader how she can come to terms with her past while moving powerfully into the future. They provide clear explanations, practical suggestions, a map of the healing journey, and many moving first-person examples of the recovery process drawn from their interviews with hundreds of survivors. Definitive in scope, The Courage to Heal speaks directly to the survivor in a warm and personal way:
Author: Ellen Bass, Laura Davis Paperback: 608 pages Company: Collins Living (1994-06-29) (1994-05-19) ISBN: 0060950668 List Price: $22.50 Amazon Price: $10.98 Used Price: $4.12 Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse  For millions of men on the path to recovery, Victims No Longer is the next step. The first book written specifically for men, Victims No Longer examines the changing cultural attitudes toward male survivors of incest and other sexual trauma. Now, in this Second Edition, this invaluable resource continues to offer compassionate and practical advice, supported by personal anecdotes and statements of male survivors. Victims No Longer helps survivors to:
Psychotherapist Mike Lew has worked with thousands of men and women in their healing from the effects of childhood sexual abuse, rape, physical violence, emotional abuse, and neglect. The development of strategies for recovery from incest and other abuse, particularly for men, has been a major focus of his work as a counselor and group leader. Thoroughly updated and revised, and including an expanded Resources section, Victims No Longer educates survivors and professionals about the recovery process -- speaking to the pain, needs, fears, and hopes of the adult male survivor. Author: Mike Lew Paperback: 464 pages Company: Harper Paperbacks (2004-05-01) (2004-05-11) ISBN: 006053026X List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $11.24 Used Price: $10.00 Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction  Amazon Best of the Month, February 2008: From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness. Yet as childhood exuberance faded into teenage angst, the precocious boy found himself going down a much different path. Seduced by the illicit world of drugs and alcohol, he quickly found himself caught in the clutches of addiction. Beautiful Boy is Nic's story, but from the perspective of his father, David. Achingly honest, it chronicles the betrayal, pain, and terrifying question marks that haunt the loved ones of an addict. Many respond to addiction with a painful oath of silence, but David Sheff opens up personal wounds to reinforce that it is a disease, and must be treated as such. Most importantly, his journey provides those in similar situations with a commodity that they can never lose: hope --Dave CallananAuthor: David Sheff Hardcover: 326 pages Company: Houghton Mifflin Co (2008-02-26) (2008-02-26) ISBN: 0618683356 List Price: $24.00 Amazon Price: $8.64 Used Price: $7.50 Addict In The Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery.  Witnessing the addiction of a family member or loved one is a heart-rending experience. But hope can prevail, as shown in this compelling new book. Here, the gripping stories of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters of addicts offer important lessons on loving, detachment, intervention, and self care.Author: Beverly Conyers Paperback: 184 pages Company: Hazelden (2003-08-26) ISBN: 156838999X List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $8.17 Used Price: $8.16 Adult Children of Alcoholics  Ten years ago, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. Today she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics. After more than ten years of working with ACoAs she shares the recovery hints that she has found to work. Read Adult Children of Alcoholics to see where the journey began and for ideas on where to go from here. Author: Janet G. Woititz Paperback: 135 pages Company: HCI (1990-11-01) ISBN: 1558741127 List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $2.98 Used Price: $0.79 |