Getting Beyond Sobriety

Michael Craig Clemmens, Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice in Pittsburgh, PA, specializing in addiction recovery and a faculty member of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.

• Preface. Addiction and Gestalt Therapy. The Process of Addiction: The Roots of Recovery. The Challenge of Recovering Addicts as Clients. The Developmental Stages and Tasks of Recovery. Five Case Studies in Recovery. Long-Term Recovery: The Expanding Horizon. Relapse. Individual Differences. Working with the Body. Further Applications of the Self-Modulation Model.

"Getting Beyond Sobriety is a brilliant integration of addictive counseling and psychotherapy from a person who has obviously walked the walk. Thoughtful, challenging, and helpful. This reading is a must for the psychotherapist specializing in addiction." - Terence T. Gorski, President, The CENAPS Corporation"Getting Beyond Sobriety makes a significant contribution to the field. It is enormously helpful in understanding the living, long-term process of recovery. The text is rich with clinical examples, which run the famut from hard-core addicts to early-phase users, from inpatient treatment settings to outpatient solo practice, and will be useful for clinicians who deal with clients in any setting."- James Kepner, Ph.D., author, Body Process and Healing Tasks