The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (606 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807035874 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Dodes's write beautifully (so rare in this field), and they also hold fast to common sense (also rare) while backing up their contrarian statements with utterly convincing evidence. “A searing critique of the rehab industry.”—Psychotherapy Networker“As always, Dr. Dodes and Dodes thoughtfully and rigorously trace the history of alcohol treatment and the role of such treatment within the “rehab” setting. Dodes offers a humane, science-based, global view of addiction. People struggling with addiction deserve more than science has provided, and The Sober Truth should stimulate a fundamental dialogue that can move the field forward. Shaffer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Division on Addiction, The Cambridge Health Alliance“Lance Dodes and Zachary Dodes have the guts to take on clearly,
It is also a book about science and how and why AA and rehab became so popular, despite the discouraging data. He also pores over the research to highlight the best peer-reviewed studies available and discovers that they reach a grim consensus on the program’s overall success. An exposé of Alcoholics Anonymous, 12-step programs, and the rehab industry—and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America. AA has become so infused in our society that it is practically synonymous with addiction recovery. Dodes analyzes dozens of studies to reveal a startling pattern of errors, misjudgments, and biases. But The Sober Truth is more than a book about addiction. Dr. Dodes’s thirty-five years of clinical practice, as well as firsthand accounts submitted by addicts through an open invitation on the Psychology Today website. D
He is the author of The Heart of Addiction and Breaking Addiction. Lance Dodes, MD, has been treating people with addictions for more than three decades. He earned a BA from Yale University and an MFA from the University of Southern California.From the Hardcover edition.. He is a Training and Supervising analyst emeritus with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and recently retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatr
"THE ROAD WELL TRAVELED AND NOTHING NEW." according to tedlyxx. The book just goes over years of research showing that AA/NA is not the cure all its proponents make it out to be. The chief problem in the treatment field is the lack of education and proper training of virtually all addiction counselors including social workers. The 12 step model is all they know so they use it as a one size fits all model of treatment and blame the patient if treatment failsor, more likely, toss them out on administrative discharge if they don't but into the treatment model. I recen. Your sky-daddy is not coming to save you Lydia Colton This book is of course, correct. It rightfully debunks the myth that god-programs of the 12 steps come even close to qualifying as "treatment." But people have been debunking this myth for decades now, and I've seen nothing change. The U.S. "treatment" centers are still overwhelmingly based in faith-healing, even though faith-healing has long since fallen out of fashion as a type of legitimate treatment. For every other medical issue, we do not tell people to get better by praying to the skydaddy to re. Very interesting but provides few answers Jack Wagoner's Amazon Profile The firs part of the book does a good job of debunking the "science of AA" and the need for much more studies on addiction that have never been done. When he gets into going through various aspects of AA and seeks to debunk all of those without any science and just through his own arguments, he kind of loses some credibility with me. I mean, there are a lot of counterarguments to a lot of what he says about AA. I, for example, have attended AA the majority of the last 30 years. I have had the ongoing e