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Letter from the Editor – 23rd Edition
What a glorious time of year! We love this time when the earth has woken up and offers us the gifts of flowers and spring-time vegetables and fruits. The season naturally lends itself to renewal and fresh starts – something we are always in favor of. The very definition of recovery is starting clean and [...]

Encounters with the Self and the Group: Psychodrama, Sociometry and Experiential Group Therapy for Resolution of PTSD
Psychodrama Psychodrama allows complexes and conflicts to be concretized by casting group members to play roles from the life of the protagonist. It allows the protagonist to have a physical “encounter” with the self; to see and experience what he carries within his mind and body, so that it can be made explicit, concrete and [...]

A Meal to Not Remember
The Betty Ford Children’s Program serves such a richly diverse group of families hurt by alcoholism and other drug addiction. Many of our courageous children live in homes where that cunning, powerful and baffling disease is still active. Others come from families where their loved one is currently in treatment somewhere in the United States. [...]

Chronic Pain Management and the Impact on Family and Friends
I’m writing this for people who are living with someone — or care for someone — who is suffering with a chronic pain condition, and they are having a hard time coping because they’re not sure how to help. Unless someone’s been in your place, they have no idea how challenging this can really be. [...]

Innovations in the Treatment of Trauma
March 13, 1993: In the darkness of my bedroom I could hear my phone ringing. I reached for my glasses and stared at the clock. It was just after 7 a.m., but somehow it seemed so dark in the room. I grabbed the phone and answered in my most professional voice. In response came a [...]

How Thoughtless, Unethical People Might Just Save Our Planet
Author’s note: I believe this topic has huge implications for putting the “lies of addicts” into a proper perspective. This explains how neuroscience and behavioral economics are showing much of the “dishonesty” that we complain about with addicts is overdone and inflated based on these fundamental brain errors: I remember being a student at Notre [...]

Sugar Addiction: Sweet Misery for All
In the world of addictions, most of us are well-versed in the usual suspects: alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, prescription medications. We recognize the signs and symptoms, can create a comprehensive treatment plan and support a client in the detox process, and even in the case of relapse. Yet sugar addiction still flies largely under the [...]

Overcoming the Critical Inner Voice Behind Addiction
Even for mental health professionals, it’s a puzzle to determine what draws people to addiction and how to tell when they are engaging in addictive behavior. What I’ve found in my own practice and research is that all addictive behaviors have two things in common: (1) they help people cut off painful feelings; and (2) [...]

Letter from the Editor – 22nd Edition
Typically, Jim and I are in the sun-soaked inland valley of Southern California and loving the warmer days and longer daylight hours. Needless to say, it’s been a bit of an adjustment since we became Oregon residents in November. There is a lovely tree in my front yard that has a few small buds, a [...]