Kirjahaku

Have you ever wondered why some people are addicts and others are not? TWO is the first book of four in the Freedom from Addiction series. This book takes you on the journey of two characters, Sally and Tom. They tell their story of addiction. Therapist Dr. Alexander Polgar comments on their experiences and provides an understanding of the nature of addiction. Readers will understand in a new and different way how addicts impact individuals, their friends, and families. This evidence-based psychosocial will explain how addicts are created and how this can be avoided. The number of addicts who become addicted is exponentially increasing. This is a global problem that requires an explanation on which relative prevention and intervention strategies can be based.

Beyond Addiction: Sally Discovers How to Think for Herself is the last of the four-book Freedom from Addiction series. The character Sally describes how she grew beyond her need to conform to group or "tribal" pressures. While being tribal provided her with a sense of security, it came at a considerable cost. No longer willing to pay the price, Sally found better ways of coping with life's challenges than having others tell her what to believe, value, and how to behave. Sally discovered how to think for herself. Learn from this story all of the many benefits that come from being your own person, free from negative controlling influences that hold you back. Therapist Dr. Alexander Polgar interprets and comments on the story to highlight how to understand the relationship between tribes, addiction, and freedom.

In this last of the four-book series on addiction Sally describes how she grew beyond her need to conform to group or "tribal" pressures. While being tribal provided her with a sense of security, it came at a considerable cost. No longer willing to pay the price, Sally found better ways of coping with life's challenges than having others tell her what to believe, value, and how to behave. Sally discovered how to think for herself. Learn from this story all of the many benefits that come from being your own person, free from negative controlling influences that hold you back.

Freedom: Sally Gets Sober and Starts to Grow Up is the second book of four in the Freedom from Addiction series. Discover an addict's story of substance abuse through the voice of the character Sally who could be anyone's daughter, sister, or friend. Sally tells her story of the challenging journey to get and stay abstinent from all intoxicants. The message is that the journey is tough and there are landmines along the way. Therapist Dr. Alexander Polgar interprets and comments on the story to highlight how to understand addiction. The book is a warning to people like Sally, and those who care about them. Explore the dangers. Prepare to successfully manage successfully this challenging but extremely rewarding process. We all could be a Sally if specific conditions in a family are present. Read how Sally gets sober. Celebrate how she stays sober.

This second book, of four, in a trilogy about substance abuse tells the story, in the voice of addicted addict Sally, of the challenging journey to getting and staying abstinent from all intoxicants. The message is, that the journey is not easy and that there are several land mines along the way. The first purpose of this tale, therefore, is to warn people like Sally, and those who care about them, of the dangers, and then prepare them to manage successfully this difficult, but extremely rewarding process. The second purpose is to convey that the potential with which Sally, indeed each of us, is born, can only be activated when specific environmental conditions are present, including but certainly not limited to, getting, and staying, sober.

Finding purpose and meaning: Sally survives her brief, nasty dance with psychiatry by Alexander T. Polgar, Ph.D This third book of four in a trilogy about substance abuse delves into the dark realm of how addicts, struggling with abstinence, are inadvertently intoxicated by psychiatrist prescribed drugs when they seek help for problems from which they hid by using. The dangers of dancing with biological psychiatry and their prescribed drugs are extensively explored in this volume. While some pay with their lives for the dance, others like Sally, get off the dance floor to live not only for another day but an altogether different life. Abstinent, they find purpose and meaning to their life as they start to actualize the gift of innate cognitive developmental potential given to all of us.

Finding purpose and meaning: Sally Survives Her Brief, Nasty Dance with Psychiatry is the second book of four in the Freedom from Addiction series. The character Sally is an addict who struggles with substance abuse. Her story delves into the dark realm of how addicts struggling with abstinence are inadvertently intoxicated when a psychiatrist prescribed drugs to help her cope with the underlying problems her substance abuse hid by using. There are dangers when dancing with biological psychiatry. The prescribed drugs are extensively explored in this volume. While some pay with their lives for the dance, others like Sally get off the dance floor to live another day and discover an altogether different life. Abstinent, the addict finds purpose and meaning in their life as they start to explore the gifts of humanity they have been given. Commenting on the story is longtime therapist, Dr. Alexander Polgar.