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Promoting Self-Change from Addictive Behaviors: Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention, and Treatment
Edited by Harald Klingemann and Linda Carter Sobell.
259 pp, $79.95.
New York, NY, Springer, 2007.
ISBN-13 978-0-3877-1286-4.
JAMA. 2008;299(7):838-840.
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Addictive behaviors result in substantial morbidity and mortality in the United States and around the world. Efforts to improve prevention and intervention continue, but the path to recovery has been difficult to predict for each individual. Whereas some individuals require multiple treatment attempts in specialized residential treatment centers, others achieve success through participation in outpatient services or mutual help groups. Recovery takes time, but the amount of treatment needed remains unclear. In addition, though sometimes overlooked in the field of addiction medicine, the editors of Promoting Self-Change from Addictive Behaviors: Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention, and Treatment assert that "many individuals with addictive behaviors overcome their problems without professional treatment or self-help groups" (p xv). In this book, Dr Harald Klingemann, of the University of Zurich, and Dr Linda Carter Sobell, of Nova Southeastern University, have gathered the latest evidence supporting the phenomenon of "self-change from addictive behaviors" into a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Lisa J. Merlo, PhD, Reviewer;
Mark S. Gold, MD, Reviewer
Department of Psychiatry
McKnight Brain Institute
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville
msgold@ufl.edu
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