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Original, controversial, and provocative--this long-awaited work confronts the reigning scientific and psychotherapeutic worldviews and presents Schaef's innovative process for working with addicted and codependent people. She argues that the prevalent views perpetuate the addictive... Read Full Overview

Now in paperback, Schaef's controversial and provocative exploration of reigning scientific and psychotherapeutic worldviews and her own Living Process work. Gutsy, visionary.--Melody Beattie, author of Codependent No More.

This book recounts the author's personal and professional journey as a therapist and her movement beyond therapy. She argues that the dominant scientific and psychotherapeutic worldviews perpetuate the addictive processes they seek to cure, and she describes, for the first time... Read Full Overview

With candor, compassion and insight, Schaef convincingly explores and exposes the unspoken limitations of the scientifc paradigm upon which this society is built and the frightening implications of a psychotherapy that is derived from that paradigm. She persuasively demonstrates... Read Full Overview