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Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Breaking the Cycle and Finding Hope

Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Breaking the Cycle and Finding Hope

Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Breaking the Cycle and Finding
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Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Breaking the Cycle and Finding Hope Paperback - 2010

by Benton, Sarah Allen

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  • Title Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Breaking the Cycle and Finding Hope
  • Author Benton, Sarah Allen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback Edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 222
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2010-10-16
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1442203900-11-6
  • ISBN 9781442203907 / 1442203900
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 11.46 x 0.66 in (22.76 x 29.11 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Psychological
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Alcoholism, Alcoholics
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.861
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

When people think of the 'typical' alcoholic, images of the 'fallen-down' drunk come to mind. Most do not think of professional men and women with successful careers, vibrant families, and active social lives. However, high-functioning alcoholics exist in great numbers, are unseen, and suffer no less than their struggling, failing counterparts. They include corporate presidents, politicians, teachers, tradesmen, law enforcement officials, lawyers, physicians, and even stay at home parents, who are by most accounts successful. Even as they have created lives most people would envy, the realities of alcoholism eventually strike, and recovery is just as arduous for high-functioning alcoholics as it is for lower functioning alcoholics. Benton reveals the extent of the problem, the challenges in recognizing it, the warning signs, and the methods for addressing it. Through research and interviews with both addiction experts and sober high-functioning alcoholics, she illustrates how, when, and why they become addicted, as well as the reasons their alcoholism is so hard to admit, detect, cope with, and overcome. Weaving her own story of alcoholism and recovery into the text in the form of past journal entries and reflective pieces, Benton takes us first hand into the lives of high-functioning alcoholics.

About the author

Sarah Allen Benton is a licensed mental health counselor and therapist at McLean Hospital in the "McLean Residence at the Brook" transitional living program for substance abuse treatment in Waltham, Massachusetts. Additionally, she works in private practice in the Boston area and speaks on the topic of high-functioning alcoholics to a variety of audiences. Resources on this topic are available at www.highfunctioningalcoholic.com.

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