Publisher's Synopsis
This book offers new strategies, techniques, and scripts as well as reviewing traditional methods of treating addictions.
The five key addictions addressed are:
- alcohol abuse and dependency
- drug abuse and addiction
- gambling compulsions/obsessions and addiction
- tobacco addiction (including cigars, pipes and chew)
- food addiction/compulsions.
Many of the techniques and strategies incorporate a variety of therapeutic modalities, including: cognitive-behavioural techniques, re-framing and other NLP techniques, systematic desensitization, covert sensitization, 12-step-programs, guided imagery and meditation, and more. The techniques described can be employed both in and out of trance.
