About face : essays on recovery, therapies, and controversies of addictions in Canada

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  • Contributor:

    Gosse, Douglas

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    About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face delves into the major categories of addiction: drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, video games, gambling, body dysmorphia, and eating disorders. With stories by those suffering from addictions, experts in the field, and service providers, this anthology is a far-reaching intervention into one of our country's most rapidly expanding social problems.

    Contents:
    • Introduction / Douglas Gosse
    • Substance Abuse
    • 1. My Life Is Going Up in Smoke / Jennifer Barnett
    • 2. Dear Alcohol / Michael Parsons
    • 3. The Weekend Alcoholic / Gareth Mitton
    • 4. A Moment in Time / Ann Dwyer Galway
    • 5. A Question of Spirit / Christopher Wallace
    • 6. Pixie Dust and Everlasting Play / Kathryn Eve
    • 7. Blinders / Kelly S. Thompson
    • 8. My Heart Never Gave Up / Rebecca Dawe
    • 9. Pseudo World / William Stromich
    • 10. Not Today, But Someday, I Will Break Free / Amanda Murphy
    • 11. You Are Never Alone / Sheri Kilmury-Ginther
    • 12. Year One / Morgan Longjohn
    • 13. The Future Is an Unlocked Door / Jim Conley
    • 14. Dealing With PTSD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain, and Harm Reduction / Melissa Cook
    • 15. Enough of the Party Drugs! / Casey Dalton
    • 16. Taking It Day by Day / Jenine Glynn
    • 17. My Addiction Journey / Rachel Marzetti
    • 18. A Choice / Stephen Miller
    • 19. Jessica / Kisten Emmott
    • 20. Where Do I Start? / Chiara Stagliano
    • 21. Setting Myself Up for Success / Andrew Carter
    • Digital Addictions: Sex, Video Games, Gambling, And Social Media
    • 1. How Soon Is Now? / Ricardo Villela
    • 2. He Had Multiple Addictions: Sex, Gambling, Video Games, Alcohol, and Drugs / Damasya Wing
    • 3. Sexual Compulsions / Kaila McAnulty
    • 4. Sex Addiction and Evidence in Canadian Family-Law Courts / David Frenkel
    • 5. A Rogue Asteroid / Blaine Hatt
    • 6. In All Reality, Everything in Life Is a Gamble / Mark Tannous
    • 7. Ma Planche De Salut / Richard Morin
    • 8. Saved from Drowning in Video-Game Addiction / Ian Young
    • 9. Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Treat Video-Game Addiction / Grace R. Vitale, John L. Vitale
    • 10. Can People Be Addicted to Technology? / Lisa Pont
    • 11. From "Vital Addition" To Fatal Distraction / Benjamin Shing Pan Wong
    • Food Addiction, Body Dysmorphia, And Eating Disorders
    • 1. My Food Addiction / Hazel Mills
    • 2. Is Food Addiction Real? / Margaret Scott
    • 3. Vanishing Point / Aisha Ashraf
    • 4. Shrinking Body, Shrinking Voice: One Person's Journey through Anorexia / Angela Rinaldis
    • 5. Living Beyond the Symptoms of Severe and Persistent Anorexia Nervosa / Erika Hunzinger
    • 6. Concave Man / Andrew Drechsler
    • 7. Males and Body Dysmorphic Disorder: From Media Images to Anorexia and Bigarexia / Naomi Perks
    • 8. Addictive Thinking and the Eating-Disorder Mindset: Similarities and Discrepancies / Emily Orr
    • Contemporary Discussion Of Addictions In Canada: Steps Forward
    • 1. Imprisoned Broken Minds: Unseen, Unheard and Forgotten Men / Davis Laine Smith
    • 2. Substance Use and Abuse: The Role that Drugs and Alcohol Play in the Lives of Criminalized Women / Jane E. Barker, D. Scharie Tavcer
    • 3. Prescription Limits Driving Some Patients to Street Drugs / Amanda Pfeffer
    • 4. Physician Addiction in Canada: Stakeholders, Services, and Determinants / Derek Puddester
    • 5. Parents with Addictions Should Not Have to Battle Children's Services, Too / Melanie Carefoot
    • 6. Opioid Addiction: Proactively Addressing Legal Concerns with Child Custody / Lisa Gelman, David Frenkel
    • 7. One Size Doesn't Fit All for Addiction Treatment / Kathryn Dalton
    • 8. An Evolutionary Perspective on Social-Media Addiction / Steven Arnocky, Shafik Sunderani, Darren W. Campbell
    • 9. The Integrity Model: To Be or Not To Be as a Function of Our Values / Nedra R. Lander, Danielle Nahon
    • 10. Treating Addiction as a Problem of Meaning / Geoff Thompson
    • Service Providers 1. Progress Place and the Double Recovery Program / Kathryn Eve
    • 2. Canadian Center for Addictions / Seth Fletcher
    • 3. Jewish Addiction Community Services / David Kaufman
    • 4. Implementation of a Two-Eyed Seeing Treatment Model in an Indigenous Residential Treatment Program / Benbowopka Teresa Naseba Marsh, Carol Eshkakogan
    • 5. Sunshine Coast Health Centre / Geoff Thompson.
    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Medicine, health and fitness
    Original Publisher: St. John's, NL, Canada , Breakwater Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781550816884

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    1550816888

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Gosse, Douglas

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About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face delves into the major categories of addiction: drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, video games, gambling, body dysmorphia, and eating disorders. With stories by those suffering from addictions, experts in the field, and service providers, this anthology is a far-reaching intervention into one of our country's most rapidly expanding social problems.

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Canadian nonfiction
Essays
Medicine, health and fitness
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St. John's, NL, Canada

Breakwater Books

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