Outwitting Your Alcoholic: Exploring and Escaping from the Strange World of Alcoholism [Paperback]

Kenneth Lucas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1998

The world of alcoholism is strange, filled with half truths and whole lies. The journey out of that world can be confusing and difficult, but people just like you have made it. In this book, Ken Lucas provides a map of the alcoholic's world. (He lived there once.) He talks about what you can do to get out, and bring the alcoholic you love with you. Your alcoholic uses lots of excuses for his drinking. This book is full of ways to help you think straight and counter his excuses. So if you ever use the excuse, "I'm doing the best I can." and it's not good enough, this book will help you do better. Chapters include: Excuses, Excuses; It's a Disease; Don't Look for a Cause; Don't Look for Logic; It's Not Social Drinking; Enabling; Formally Intervening; Powerlessness; Recovery; and Frequently Asked Questions.

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About the Author

Ken Lucas is a certified counselor and has extensive experience working with individuals and families whose lives are impacted by alcohol.

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Idyll Arbor (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882883381
• ISBN-13: 978-1882883387
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,053,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Newly Aware, January 12, 2000

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This review is from: Outwitting Your Alcoholic: Exploring and Escaping from the Strange World of Alcoholism (Paperback)

This is an excellent book for any one who lives, loves, works with, is friends with, etc., an alchoholic or addict. It is a primary for the beginning of awareness of the problem. I don't recommend this for anyone who has been involved in any recovery program longer than 3 months.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outwitting Your Alcoholic, May 17, 2004

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Jacquie Jensen, MSW (Tempe, Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Outwitting Your Alcoholic: Exploring and Escaping from the Strange World of Alcoholism (Paperback)

As a substance abuse counselor, I appreciated the insight Outwitting Your Alcoholic gave and used it as a companion to daily life. I also referred to it in many lectures focusing on the imbalanced family and co-addiction. It simplified the answers to questions that emerged from family members who struggled with the inability to move forward in their lives. It offered alternative techniques which helped to improve self awareness and self assurance. Outwitting Your Alcoholic provided new breakdowns on the core issues of personal recovery, and was utilized in many counseling sessions to provide tools to tap into our inner strengths. Thanks so much.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of Keep the Loving and Stop the Drinking, January 20, 2006

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Jacquie Jensen "Beth" (Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Outwitting Your Alcoholic: Exploring and Escaping from the Strange World of Alcoholism (Paperback)

As a substance abuse counselor, I was searching for a recovery book that would encompass many of the practical strategies which would help me deal therapeutically with the many forms of resistance I would encounter with our clients and their families in our Intensive Outpatient Treatment series. "Keep the Loving..." answered all the questions which would come up in class, and I found it to be a hands on resource guide that I was able to apply to the basic issues and key concepts of the recovery group process. In addition, I enjoyed the practical, and thoroughly up-to-date topics which were covered in this book. Mr. Lucas is a sensitive author and an informed teacher.