Offering an alternative to twelve-step programs, a supportive guide explains how to identify the impulse to use intoxicants, learn self-control, value sobriety, and replace addiction with self-supportive behaviors. Reprint.
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This book saved my life.,
This review is from: The Small Book (Rational Recovery Systems) (Paperback)
The comment above is not made lightly- I was a drunk for 25 years and made several attempts to quit, but could never understand why AA didn't work for me. Everything I ever read on alcoholism was AA oriented, and I thought the only way to quit was to spend the rest of my life in smoky church basements telling my problems to strangers. This book was the voice I'd been looking for, that let me know that there were other ways to think about alcoholism. I don't mean to knock AA because it has helped so many people. But it just didn't work for me. Reading this book was like turning a light on my Beast within. If you want to stop drinking and get control of your life, please try this book. It worked for me.
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This book has done more to save my son, who has been a drug addict for the last 10 years, than all three of the rehab clinics and AA meetings combined. For the first time in years, he is actually thinking positive and feeling good about himself. He also encouraged me to read it too. It is a great book for anyone, whether you are an addict or not.
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save your $ for his next book(R.R.),
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skip this one folks, Trimpey's just gathering his thoughts here. quite alot of what's in this book he omits in the later, "Rational Recovery"(the book). the whole jist of R.R. is A.V.R.T. (addictive voice recognition technique). the Small Book has yet to fully develop this concept as his later work does, and it contains too much "rational-emotive" blah, blah... that I don't believe is needed, i.e. A.V.R.T. supercedes it. his book "rat. rec." is in my opinion definately worth the $.
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In the first edition of The Small Book (TSB), I began with "First, let me introduce myself . . ." and then I gave a three-page account of my own recovery from alcoholism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
more rational viewpoint, rescuing deity, spiritual healing programs, boozing opportunity, addiction care, rational sobriety, addictive voice, loving opinions, more rational idea, most substance abusers, alcoholic relapse, other substance abusers, chemically dependent people, alcoholic person, dry drunk, chemically dependent person, further drinking, irrational ideas, dependency groups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rational Recovery, Higher Power, The Small Book, The Big Book, Aunt Alice, Albert Ellis, Alcoholics Anonymous, Doctrine of Variable Human Worth, Rational Peer Consultation, Central Beliefs of Alcoholism, Sobriety Spreadsheet, Supreme Being New!
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In the first edition of The Small Book (TSB), I began with "First, let me introduce myself . . ." and then I gave a three-page account of my own recovery from alcoholism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
more rational viewpoint, rescuing deity, spiritual healing programs, boozing opportunity, addiction care, rational sobriety, addictive voice, loving opinions, more rational idea, most substance abusers, alcoholic relapse, other substance abusers, chemically dependent people, alcoholic person, dry drunk, chemically dependent person, further drinking, irrational ideas, dependency groups Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rational Recovery, Higher Power, The Small Book, The Big Book, Aunt Alice, Albert Ellis, Alcoholics Anonymous, Doctrine of Variable Human Worth, Rational Peer Consultation, Central Beliefs of Alcoholism, Sobriety Spreadsheet, Supreme Being New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie on page 171, page 174, and Back Matter
- When Society Becomes an Addict by Anne Wilson Schaef in Back Matter
- How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything: Yes, Anything by Albert Ellis in Back Matter
- Guide to Modern Psychiatry (Belknap Press) by Armand M. Nicholi in Back Matter
- Anger: How To Live With And Without It by Albert Ellis in Back Matter
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- Sober for Good: New Solutions for Drinking Problems -- Advice from Those Who Have Succeeded by Anne M. Fletcher M.S. R.D. on 5 pages
- Sober for Good by Anne M. Fletcher M.S. R.D. on 5 pages
- Many Roads One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps by Charlotte S. Kasl on 4 pages
- The Tomorrow Trap: Unlocking the Secrets of the Procrastination-Protection Syndrome by Karen E. Peterson on page 276, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Recovery Options: The Complete Guide by Joseph Volpicelli on page 147, page 148, and Back Matter
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