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Addiction

by Robe Vande Kappelle

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Wipf and Stock
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

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What is addiction, and how do we know if we are addicted? Speaking sociologically, we are addicted because we live in addictive societies that turn us into consumers and materialists. Speaking biologically, we are addicted because that is how we are hardwired. Speaking spiritually, we are addicted because we seek spiritual satisfaction through things other than God. Humans can be addicted to most any object, ideology, and belief, but they cannot be addicted to the true God, for reasons disclosed in this text. As this book demonstrates, addiction is a pattern of learned behavior that utilizes ancient mental pathways designed to promote survival and reproduction. When neural connections intended to promote eating, reproduction, parenting, and social relationships are diverted into addiction, their blessings can become curses. While heredity, parenting, trauma, and additional psychological and sociological factors play significant roles in compulsive behavior, addiction is essentially a developmental disorder, a way to manage an environment that feels threatening and overwhelming. Change (getting unstuck) is possible, but it requires five ingredients: acknowledgment, resolution, substitution, human help, and divine help. Because addictions represent complex interactions between biological, psychological, social, and spiritual forces, the solution must be holistic as well. Designed as a study guide for groups or individual use, this book approaches the topic comprehensively, examining the nature of addiction; its cause, symptoms, consequences, and means of recovery.
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  • Author

    Robe Vande Kappelle

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Wipf and Stock

  • Published

    May 2019

  • Weight

    296g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781532690204

  • ISBN-10

    1532690207

  • Eden Code

    5067750

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