Creative Recovery: A Complete Addiction Treatment Program That Uses Your Natural Creativity

For writers, artists, musicians, and creators in every field, this book offers a complete addiction recovery program specifically designed for the creative person. Full of explanations and exercises, this book presents ways to use your own innate creative abilities in service of your recovery and at each stage of the recovery process. Topics include: the biological and developmental risks unique to creative people; the special personality traits that can inform the recovery process; ways to approach your recovery much like your art; and exercises that promote your creativity and art that aid the recovery process. This book gives a clear picture of the relationship between creativity and addiction and lays out a complete program so that you can live a fully creative and addiction-free life.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 10/14/2008
ISBN: 9781590305447
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 7.38h x 6.04w x 0.79d

Review Citations: Library Journal 09/01/2008 pg. 145