| Description |
xi, 192 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Addiction dependency and subordination dependency. p. 38 |
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Alcohol and pregnant women. p. 103 |
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Alcohol and women's hunger -- exploring new ideas. p. 42 |
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Alcoholics Anonymous. p. 141 |
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Becoming strong. p. 157 |
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Blocking the healing process. p. 95 |
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Challenging traditional views: myth, healing and the female body. p. 170 |
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Co-dependency movement. p. 150 |
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Creating visions. p. 165 |
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Developing healthy hunger. p. 49 |
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Developing the concept 'substance use'. p. 34 |
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Double standard or social hypocrisy?. p. 84 |
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Encountering basic problems of living. p. 55 |
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Hierarchy of drugs. p. 37 |
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How are women 'treated' by treatment?. p. 118 |
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Index. p. 190 |
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Multiple images. p. 91 |
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Multiple problems. p. 56 |
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Overturning devaluing and negative images. p. 99 |
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Recognising devaluing and negative images. p. 96 |
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Seeing women. p. 164 |
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Special groups of women. p. 75 |
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Treatment 'worth its salt' is women-sensitive. p. 136 |
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What have these people said?. p. 28 |
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What is meant by treatment?. p. 116 |
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What is women-sensitivity?. p. 167 |
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What sorts of problems have resulted from these traditional ideas?. p. 30 |
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What strategies can be helpful to women overdrinkers in being more ware of their inner selves?. p. 168 |
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Who are the people who have created the ideas?. p. 27 |
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Women and alcohol: exposing new tensions. p. 178 |
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Women and alcohol: what can we depend on?. p. 179 |
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Women's compounded problems. p. 72 |
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Women-healing. p. 118 |
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Ch. 1. Women's use of alcohol |
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Ch. 2. Multiple problems and women's drinking |
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Ch. 3. Multiple images and social hypocrisy |
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Ch. 4. Female 'treatment' or women-healing? |
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Ch. 5. Becoming strong: women-sensitivity and self-help |
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Ch. 6. Mixing women-sensitivity with alcohol: a Molotov cocktail? |
| Summary |
A helpful book for women, their families and concerned friends who think they have an alcohol problem |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 184-189 |
| Subject |
Women alcoholics.
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Women -- Alcohol use.
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Alcohol Drinking.
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Alcoholism.
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Women's Health.
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| ISBN |
0704344378 |
