Book reviews from Consideratione

" Drawing on more than 20 years of learning about and treating the disfunctional behaviors of troubled individuals, the psychologist Dr. Lee Jampolsky has produced, in his book "Healing the Addictive Personality," released last year (2008), a worthy successor to his widely read and popular "Healing the Addictive Mind." As the two titles suggest, he has gone beyond thought processes alone to show how ALL aspects of our personality can have addictive tendencies, which are not necessarily limited to any substance, thing, activity or preoccupation. The commonality of behaviors which characterize the addictive personalities which all or most of us possess to some degree, lend us the possibility of being healed by applying truth-based, love- and relationship-oriented principles to all aspects of our personality. Dr. Jampolsky concludes his book with a series of twenty-one daily lessons, and an eleven-week program for ongoing healing. This compact but powerful work (171 pages) should be read with thoughtful consideration by every person who wants to live better and happier."