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Children of Alcoholism

The Struggle for Self and Intimacy in Adult Life

by Barbara L. Wood
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In this sensitive and richly rewarding book Barbara L. Wood, a clinician with many years' experience working with adult children of the chemically dependent, gives clinicians informed and practical advice on how to treat the damaged self of these individuals. She offers strategies for intervention, along with step-by-step principles that tell the therapist how best to create an environment to help patients.

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    October 1, 1987

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      • ISBN: 9780814770511

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      • ISBN: 9780814770511
      • File size: 1891 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      September 15, 1987
      Wood is concerned with the trauma experienced by children raised in an alcoholic home and the impact of this early trauma on their psychological development and adult adjustment. As she notes, children of alcoholics often adopt the same self-destructive patterns of alcoholism as their parents. Consequently they suffer from feelings of emptiness, futility, and hopelessness. Wood writes within a psychodynamic framework that attempts to address these problems by dredging up events from the past. Other factors under serious consideration by the medical community todayincluding genetic predisposition and biological basesare ignored. The overall appeal of her work is thus limited to those of a similar theoretical persuasion. Barbara J. Powell, Kansas City Veteran's Administration Medical Ctr., Mo.

      Copyright 1987 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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