PROMIS Addiction Publications
Books by Dr Robert Lefever
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Compulsive Helping [£4.95]Compulsive helping is the need to be needed, the devotion to help other people, irrespective of whether the help was actually successful, needed and appreciated, and also irrespective of the damage caused to the helper through burnout and the other consequences of taking a good thing too far. Doctors, teachers, social workers, politicians and many other professionals can become a menace when compulsive helping becomes damaging to others and to themselves. As Dr William Glasser, the eminent Los Angeles psychiatrist, once said “If someone says 'I know whats good for you', you should run for your life.” |
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False Medical Gods [£4.95]The medical profession is often deified, most commonly by themselves. In this book doctors are looked at from an iconoclastic viewpoint, seeing doctors as human beings and medical institutions as being just as frail as others. The Welfare State itself may be the greatest false medical god of all. |
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Dangerous Doctors [£4.95]We all know that doctors make mistakes. Of course they do. The important question is why. Paradoxically, with the exception of those who are manifestly incompetent or even criminal, it is when doctors are controlled and supervised too much that they lose interest and lose heart and become most likely to make mistakes |
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Common Sense in the Treatment of Eating Disorders [£4.95]Common Sense in the Treatment of Eating Disorders is the full title of this publication and is a very necessary contribution to the literature. Absolutely everybody knows what to do for people with eating disorders. However, most of the ideas may seem sensible but they do not work in practice. At The PROMIS Recovery Centre we have treated over 1000 people with eating disorders and they keep referring their friends because our ideas work in practice. This book is a summary of what we think on the cause and treatment of eating disorders. |
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Preventing Addiction [£3.95]This children's book contains many animations that will help children to understand and hopefully avoid addiction. Please click here to to see the first few pages as a Flash movie. |
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A New Life: Healing Depression [£8.95]This book is a collection of thoughts on depression and compulsive or addictive behaviour in all forms and is based on lectures given by Dr Robert Lefever on subjects that patients themselves have chosen. |
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Healing [£3.95]This book looks at why some people heal well and others do not and also examines the concept of healing as opposed to treatment. |
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Cigarette Smoking: Fifteen Reasons for Continuing to Smoke (or not) [£3.95]An addict who is already abstinent from other substances and processes but is still smoking cannot claim to have experienced full recovery. In order to give up successfully we must look at the fifteen reasons why we have continued to smoke until now. Giving up smoking doubles the chance of recovery from other addictions. |
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Kick The Habit [£7.99]This book is based on Dr Robert Lefever's clinical experience of working with patients at PROMIS and includes a foreword by Clarissa Dickson Wright of TV's "Two Fat Ladies." Father Joseph Martin, Founder and Director of Father Martin's Ashley treatment centre in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, said "He has written a book that stands out in the field of addictions." |
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