Coyote Speaks: Creative Strategies for Treating Alcoholics and Addicts

by Jacques Rutzky

Book Overview

Coyote Speaks describes the strengths, the strategies, and the resilience a therapist needs to work successfully with alcoholics and addicts. It reports what a therapist sees, hears, smells, and feels in the midst of treating those yet to achieve sobriety, those recently sober, and those with years of recovery behind them. In the Navajo cosmology, those possessed by Coyote are neither inherently evil nor morally lacking, but like alcoholics and addicts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765701413
• ISBN13: 9780765701411
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

a necessary perspective

This book doesn't focus on proving things about addiction. Rather, it offers a perspective that is both "new" and ancient. Addiction personality type or personality trap that all humans are capable of falling into - it is, essentially, a pattern. This author blends Native American folklore about the Coyote archetype with sound professional experience. I highly recommend this book for students in counseling/psychology professions, or as a fresh perspective for anyone interested in learning the true nature of addiction.