Addiction Dilemmas Family Experiences from Literature and Research and their Lessons for Practice

by Orford, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780470977019
• ISBN10: 0470977019
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-17
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Addiction Dilemmas explores the impact of addiction on those closest to the individuals affected their families. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the book discusses the stresses and strains that family members are subjected to, the dilemmas that they face, and the coping strategies that they have found useful. Draws on a unique breadth of material to illustrate the dilemmas faced by family members in coping with a close relative's addiction Raises questions and points to controversies rather than dispensing prescriptive 'one size fits all' advice Brings together accounts from research interviews, biography, autobiography and relevant fiction in a creative and original way Tackles common misunderstandings at public, practitioner, scholarly and policy levels about the predicaments that family members commonly find themselves in Each chapter closes with a commentary, questions and exercises designed to further develop understanding for professionals and students

Author Biography

Jim Orford is Emeritus Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Birmingham. His books on addiction include Excessive Appetites: A Psychological View of Addictions (2e, 2001) and An Unsafe Bet?: The Dangerous Rise of Gambling and the Debate We Should be Having (2011).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Sources and Acknowledgements	p. xiii
We'll Be There for Him: A Family Responds to Relapse	p. 1
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill	p. 9
Tough Love: A Television Studio Discussion	p. 15
Wives of Gamblers	p. 21
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë	p. 31
British Sikh Wives and Daughters Stand Up to Men's Drinking	p. 38
Nil By Mouth: A Film by Gary Oldman	p. 46
Worrying for Drinkers in Aboriginal Australia	p. 52
A Prodigal Son: The Mother's Story	p. 65
Parents of Problem Gamblers	p. 75
The Tale of Caitlin Thomas	p. 88
Dylan Thomas in America by John Malcolm Brinnin	p. 103
An Imaginary Conversation: Wives in Mexico, England, South Korea and Italy	p. 111
Father Figure by Beverley Nichols	p. 124
Growing Up with My Mother by Virginia Ironside	p. 131
Mrs Sara Coleridge and Friends	p. 138
Five Husbands of Wives with Drinking Problems: A Focus Group	p. 153
A Chancer by James Kelman	p. 169
Growing Up with Parents Who Drink Excessively: Four Stories	p. 175
Baudelaire and His Mother in Chains	p. 185
Fever Pitch by Richard Brooks	p. 194
I Only Had the Baby's Welfare at Heart: Concerned Grandmothers	p. 199
Further Reading	p. 207
Index	p. 209
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