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

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

Summary: "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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  • ISBN: 1550816888
  • ISBN: 9781550816884
  • Physical Description: 421 pages ; 23 cm
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  • Publisher: St. John's, NL, Canada : Breakwater Books, [2018]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: Compulsive Behavior
Substance abuse -- Psychological aspects
Substance abuse -- Treatment
Alcoholism -- Psychological aspects
Alcoholism -- Treatment
Addicts -- Rehabilitation
Addicts -- Psychology
Compulsive behavior -- Canada
Genre: Essays.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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