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Mary Karr’s “Lit.”
Elizabeth Vargas of ABC’s 20/20 talks with poet and memoirist Mary Karr for the segment, “Mother’s Little Helper: Moms struggling with alcoholism open up about their secret habit,” to air 10 p.m....
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A Quaker explores the Serenity Prayer.
Full disclosure: Eileen Flanagan and I are acquainted through Quaker circles. Flanagan’s subject here is a prayer that is spoken during the tens of thousands of recovery meetings that take place...
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Book review: Bill Clegg’s PORTRAIT OF AN ADDICT AS A YOUNG MAN
By now you may have read reviews of Bill Clegg’s new book about how in the space of two months a few years back, he burned through $70,000 worth of crack, fancy Manhattan hotels, and rent boys, also...
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Addiction and Art.
Addiction and Art has been sitting prominently on my coffee table. I’ve designed books, and it’s a beautiful book: a big flat hardcover bound in cherry-red cloth, with a reproduction of a painting in...
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15 Lessons learned by kids of alcoholic families
The following list of lessons learned by daughters of alcoholic families appears in Perfect Daughters: Adults Daughters of Alcoholics, by Robert J. Ackerman, Ph.D. A classic I just now found… in print...
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The God Thing: How God Changes Your Brain
I am acting like an addict and eating through the rest of the sugar in the house. I know this is what I’m doing; it feels the way it felt eating through the rest of the drugs I had before I went into...
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Book Review: Melody Beattie’s Codependent No More Workbook
One amazing insight I had while I read Melody Beattie’s new Codependent No More Workbook—a sequel to her 1986 bestseller, Codependent No More, reissued this month by Hazelden’s press—is this: I drank...
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Book Review: Jeffrey Schwartz’s “You Are Not Your Brain.”
Leo DiCaprio as the obsession-driven Howard Hughes. So here’s an interesting story about the work of Jeffrey Schwartz, M.D., a psychiatrist who studies neuroplasticity and mindfulness, and who...
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Book Review: Gabor Maté’s In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts Close Encounters with Addiction Gabor Maté, M.D. North Atlantic Books, 2010 Hungry Ghosts is a brilliantly conceived, richly researched and eloquently written account of a...
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David Servan-Schreiber on Higher Power, Meditation, and Relapse.
David Servan-Schreiber, M.D. Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, the French physician and neuroscientist and a pioneer of “integrative” medicine, died Sunday at 50 of the cancer he’d been fighting for 20...
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Sex in Recovery: Advance Praise
The people who know their stuff are liking my new book. “Sex In Recovery is a work long overdue. In a frank, personal and highly personable way Jennifer Matesa opens a topic usually only whispered...
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