{"product_id":"9780985387228","title":"Love and Addiction","description":"In \u003ci\u003eLove and Addiction, \u003c\/i\u003e published 40 years ago and sold as a mass-market paperback on love, Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky laid out every major issue confronting the addiction field today. This pioneering classic, which was excerpted in \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e and spawned the codependence movement, is the first-and still the definitive-book on addictive love. But it is much more than that; it is the book that explains why \u003ci\u003eaddiction is not what we think it is. Love and Addiction\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on dependent love relationships to explore what both love and addiction really are-psychologically, socially, and culturally. \u003cp\u003eAddiction is an overgrown, dependent, destructive relationship. Love is the opposite, a sharing, growth-inspiring one. The authors' analysis makes clear that an addiction is an experience that takes on meaning and power in light of a person's needs, desires, beliefs, expectations, and fears. By showing how addiction grows out of ordinary human experience, Peele and Brodsky offer a liberating understanding of \u003ci\u003eall \u003c\/i\u003e addictions-to alcohol, drugs, tobacco, food, gambling, shopping, electronic media, sex, or love. In 1975, \u003ci\u003eLove and Addiction\u003c\/i\u003e boldly proposed ideas whose truth is only now being recognized:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAddiction is not limited to drugs, and drugs are not necessarily addictive.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAA's 12 steps are not the last word in addiction treatment. On the contrary, practically oriented addiction treatments are more effective. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe goal of addiction treatment and recovery is not abstinence to the exclusion of all else, but to build a life that rules out addiction. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLove is the opposite of the self-protective constriction of addiction; it is the expansion of your spirit with another human being. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemarkably, all of these issues-the widespread application of the addiction diagnosis, the limited value of AA and its disease theory, the possibility that people can continue using but still eliminate addiction (harm reduction)-\u003ci\u003eare as hotly debated today as when Peele and Brodsky first analyzed addiction forty years ago. \u003c\/i\u003eMost remarkably of all, the answers Peele and Brodsky arrived at in \u003ci\u003eLove and Addiction\u003c\/i\u003e are only now being embraced by progressive thinkers in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Destined to become a classic!\" \u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e proclaimed in 1975. Rereading \u003ci\u003eLove and Addiction\u003c\/i\u003e 35 years later, addiction researcher Rowdy Yates wrote that the book \"still reads absolutely true as an understanding of addictive behavior.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading today this clairvoyant analysis of the most challenging issues we face in the twenty-first century-the meaning of love and the cure for addiction-you will recognize both the current relevance and enduring value of \u003ci\u003eLove and Addiction, \u003c\/i\u003enow reissued with a new (2015) Authors' Preface, the Authors' Preface written for the 1991 paperback reissue, and a brief new introduction to each chapter. Otherwise, nothing has been changed in the original book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadrow Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035733049584,"sku":"9780985387228","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780985387228_p0.jpg?v=1763890154","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780985387228","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}