| Description |
xii, 149 pages : illustration ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: My experience in the world that seems so insane -- Belief systems: uncovering the wounded family system -- Rodeo clowns, life jackets, and being on call 24/7: what do I become? -- Looking inside: what keeps us stuck? -- Intergenerational insanity: the impaired coping model -- Deepening our understanding of the family deal: early influences, failed methods, enabling, and dependency -- There is a solution: small shifts produce big results -- Touching it with love: choosing connection over being right -- "I just want (them) to be happy": your recovery action plan -- Freedom from family dysfunction: staying on the path. |
| Summary |
"The headlines ring with stories of opioid addiction and overdose. Parents complain about their children's screen addiction, law enforcement decries the flood of fentanyl, scores of Americans overdose and die daily, and teen alcohol poisoning and marijuana-induced psychosis rates continue to rise. Disabling depression and anxiety are diagnosed at alarming rates in families across the country. Now, more than ever, families struggle to live with, care for, and protect their family members suffering with addiction or mental illness. Kenneth Perlmutter, a California psychologist with 30-plus years in the field, has written Freedom from Family Dysfunction specifically for family members who love someone battling addiction or mental illness who want to break the cycles of codependency and relapse plaguing their dysfunctional systems. The combination of compelling vignettes, lively dialogues, and step-by-step instructions makes this guidebook an indispensable tool for the parents, partners, adult children, and the clinicians who treat them, to heal the powerlessness, pain, and impossibility of life with someone they've been trying to help, sometimes for decades. Perlmutter takes a systemic and inter-generational view, combining current knowledge with his deep personal experience of addiction and family dysfunction to guide readers toward understanding their systems, their positions in them, and the forces that keep things stuck." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Dysfunctional families -- Evaluation.
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Families -- Mental health.
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Families -- Psychological aspects.
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Mental health.
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Mental illness.
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Family -- psychology
(DNLM)D005190Q000523
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Family Relations (DNLM)D005195
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Mental Health (DNLM)D008603
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Mental health. (OCoLC)fst01016339
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Dysfunctional families -- Evaluation. (OCoLC)fst01728526
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Families -- Mental health.
(OCoLC)fst01728902
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Families -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01728915
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| Genre/Form |
Self-help publications. (OCoLC)fst01941328
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Self-help publications.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Perlmutter, Kenneth, 1958- author. Freedom from family dysfunction Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019] 9781538121955 (DLC) 2019017982 |
| ISBN |
9781538121948 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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1538121948 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9781538175996 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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1538175991 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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9781538121955 electronic publication |
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