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Freedom from family dysfunction : a guide to healing families battling addiction or mental illness / Kenneth Perlmutter.

by Perlmutter, Kenneth, 1958-

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

616.89156 P451f

Dysfunctional families -- Evaluation.

Families -- Mental health.

9781538121948 (cloth alk. paper)

xii, 149 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The headlines ring with stories of opioid addiction and overdose. Parents complain about their children's screen addiction. Law enforcement and healthcare professionals battle the flood of fentanyl and the lethality of street and prescription drugs. 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 keep alive their loved ones suffering with addiction or mental illness. Kenneth Perlmutter has written [this book] specifically for family members who love someone battling addiction or mental illness but 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 tools for 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 assist, sometimes for decades. Family members who take up Perlmutter's method will: create closeness by pursuing connection over being right ; reject 'tough love' ; learn to communicate authentically and set boundaries confidently and fairly ; rebuild trust authenticity, and equality in family relationships ; reduce chaos, anxiety, and distress in the mind and in the home ; achieve wellness for all family members and the system itself."-- Page [4] of cover.

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