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"""Now more than ever, we need widely available compassionate treatment approaches to addiction and substance use disorder, yet many generalist therapists avoid seeing clients who need help with addictions. Sometimes this is because they were taught this wasn't within their scope of practice by supervisors. Or it may be because they've had intimidating experiences with unrelenting or overwhelming addictive behavior, they've experienced the wrath of an angry client, they fear the client will overdose, they can't tolerate the sinkhole of the client's ambivalence, or they've felt futile and useless after repetitive cycles of addictive recurrences and bearing witness to a client's decline. If any of this rings a bell and you would prefer to feel empowered with clients who engage in addictive processes, read this book. It illustrates three master clinicians using the innovative internal family systems (IFS) approach to help clients deescalate inner conflicts and navigate addictive behaviors."" -Zev Schuman-Olivier, MD, director of the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion and director of Addiction Research, Cambridge Health Alliance, and assistant professor in psychiatry, Harvard Medical School ""Addiction experts usually come in three flavors: treatment providers who tout their explicit formula for recovery, sociopolitical thinkers who understand addiction as a complex societal ill, and students of child development who recognize the trauma-strewn pathways that result in addiction and self-harm. How refreshing, then, and how remarkably comprehensive and satisfying, to see an amalgamation of all three perspectives in Internal Family Systems Therapy for Addictions, which then goes on to teach us precisely how to intervene. ""As a onetime addict, addiction researcher, and clinical psychologist, I'm blown away by the impact of Sykes and colleagues' IFS-guided approach to therapy. For nearly 10 years I have used this approach with my addicted clients, and there's simply nothing out there with such precision and power to help. IFS in general, and the authors' step-by-step formula for applying IFS impeccably with this difficult population, targets addiction where it lives-in the struggle between overcontrol and abandon. As these authors clarify through their singular insights and expertise, it's a struggle that gets resolved through focused attention and self-compassion, not by taking sides. ""This book is for therapists, clients, educators, coaches, and clinical researchers who've been trying to make sense of the convoluted literature and practice guidelines intended to help those who suffer from addictive disorders. It brings clarity to the chaos, both intellectually and pragmatically, but its most impressive achievement is to map out a treatment approach that actually makes a difference."" -Marc Lewis, PhD, C.Psych, professor emeritus (University of Toronto), clinical psychologist, and author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease and Memoirs of an Addicted Brain"

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