Woolverton Frederick - Unhooked : how to quit anything

Copyright 2012 by Dr. Frederick Woolverton and Susan Shapiro

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Addiction is one of the most fearsome challenges to happiness. Unhooked is crammed with insights and practical strategies to help you conquer addictionwhether youre addicted to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, shopping, video games, exercising, or diet sodaand to help you gain your freedom and a happier life. Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, #1 New York Times bestseller.

Unhooked offers new, powerful yet simple strategies to help you break free from the stranglehold of drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, smoking and other self-sabotage. Dr. Woolvertons personal odyssey and compelling client stories make it a great read. More importantly, his insights make the book an invaluable tool to regain control of your life.Diana Kirschner, PhD, psychologist, author of bestseller Love in 90 Days and Sealing the Deal.

One of lifes great paradoxes is that the barriers to improvement are internal. Why do we have so much trouble making good choices? In Unhooked, a users manual to improve your life, Frederick Woolverton draws upon his decades of experience helping people to teach us how to change for the better. An insightful, practical, and fun guide to self-improvement and happiness.Terry Burnham, PhD, Harvard economics professor and coauthor of Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts.

What most impresses me about Fred Woolvertons addiction theories is his unapologetic demand that the patients face, experience, and tolerate their own suffering. Its a very spiritual position. You dont get that insight just by being a reformed addict. In addition to being a smart, well-trained, gifted therapist, Woolverton has the wisdom that can only be gained by deep early suffering. Luckily, he shares that hard-won wisdom with his patients and readers.John D. Gartner, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and author of The Hypomanic Edge and In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography.

A highly personal and compelling read. Unhookedtakes the most complex subject in mental healthaddictionsand puts forth a new treatment paradigm without applying a one-size-fits-all approach.Vatsal Thakkar, MD, director of the graduate medical education Wellness team at NYU Medical Center, and author of the textbooks Addiction and Depression and Bipolar Disorder.

In a wise, engaging, first-person voice filled with empathy and humor, Unhooked offers brilliant, insightful, and inventive tactics on how to conquer the bad habits keeping you from getting what you want. Karen Salmansohn, bestselling author of How to Be Happy Dammit and The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive In the Face of Adversity, Setbacks and Losses.

Unhookeds intelligent, incisive plan will provide a straight shot (as long as its not whiskey) to success.Wendy Shanker, author of The Fat Girls Guide to Life and Are You My Guru!

Millions of Americans who are hooked on sugar, caffeine, diet foods, texting, emailing, painkillers, pornography, overeating, bulimia, and other unhealthy habits need Unhooked. This empowering book from veteran addiction specialist Dr. Frederick Woolverton compassionately guides addicts on a journey of self-discovery so that they can finally overcome the counterproductive behaviors that distract and prevent them from getting what they really want.Connie Bennett, author of Sugar Shock: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life.

Unhooked makes the solution to the grave problem of addiction very accessible, taking the embarrassment out of it. Its fascinating when an effective therapist explains his approach. The book makes you want to see Dr. Woolverton. His spirit and optimism perfuse every page. Dr. Mary Pressman, child psychiatrist and assistant clinical professor at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Unhooked is great.The world really needs this book!Sherene Schostak, MA, Jungian psychoanalyst and author of Surviving Saturns Return: Overcoming the Most Tumultuous Time of Your Life.

TO BOB COOK,

with gratitude

Many former and current patients and colleagues generously granted me permission to use their stories in this book for the purpose of helping others overcome similar addictions. I have changed names, dates, and identifying characteristics for literary cohesion and to protect their privacy.