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Award-Winner in the Health: Addiction & Recovery category of The 2013 USA Best Book Awards sponsored by USA Book News

This book is for everyone who is suffering from the disease of addiction or who cares about someone who is: for addicts, their families and friends, and their health care providers. It is for those who are currently in recovery and looking for a way to shift their recovery into a higher gear—from just surviving and muddling through to becoming the absolute best version of themselves, from mere recovery to Integral Recovery.

Integral Recovery is the groundbreaking application of Integral Theory to addiction. It brings alcohol and drug treatment into the twenty-first century by combining the best of the treatment modalities of the past with the latest knowledge, techniques, and neurotechnologies in order to ensure a more holistic and lasting recovery. In addition to providing an illuminating and inspiring map to the path of recovery, Integral Recovery teaches life-changing practices that initiate the addict on a journey of healing, transformation, and awakening, offering the possibility of a lifetime of health, joy, and sobriety.
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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Another Book on Recovery from Addiction?

1. Recovery from What?

2. The Integral Map

3. Stages and Spiral Dynamics

4. Working the Lines

5. Integrating Healthy States of Consciousness

6. Understanding Types

7. Bringing It All Together: Integral Recovery Treatment

8. Building the Body

9. Transforming the Brain

10. Healing the Emotions and the Power of the Shadow

11. Healing the Spirit

12. Practice and the Path to Mystery

13. The Family Component

14. Relapse Beings When You Stop Practicing

Afterword

Appendix 1. On Becoming an Integral Treatment Provider
Appendix 2. Integral Recovery and the Greater Field of Addiction Treatment.
Appendix 3. Integral Recovery: An AQAL Approach to Inpatient Alcohol and Drug Treatment (A Case Study)
Appendix 4. Integral Recovery Twelve Steps

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	08 avril 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781438446158
Langue	English
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SUNY Series in Integral Theory

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, editor

Integral Recovery
A Revolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Addiction
JOHN DUPUY

Cover photo of “Tall Aspens” courtesy of Zach Hessler / www.naturesgiftphotography.com
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
© 2013 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dupuy, John, 1956–
Integral recovery : a revolutionary approach to the treatment of alcoholism and addiction / John Dupuy.
p. cm. — (Excelsior editions)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-4613-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4384-4614-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Alcoholism—Treatment. 2. Substance abuse—Treatment. 3. Psychotherapy. I. Title.
RC565.D87 2013
616.86'0651—dc23
2012017396
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Illustrations
Figure 1. The Four Quadrants
Figure 2. Four-Quadrant Treatment Assessment
Figure 3. Four-Quadrant Treatment Plan
Figure 4. Levels/Stages of Moral Development
Figure 5. Integral Spiral of Development
Figure 6. Brainwave States
Figure 7. The Enneagram
Figure 8. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid
Acknowledgments
It is a pleasure to be able to publicly thank and honor those who made me possible, and those who made the writing of this book possible. First, I would like to acknowledge my parents. When I was in graduate school, we did three quarters of group therapy, and during that process I claimed that I had really good parents and that all my personal problems were my own. My fellow students all thought I was in denial, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it. I love you, Mom and Dad.
I want to give thanks to my wife, Pam, who gave me the time and space to write this book—see, I told you! And thank you to Heidi Mitchell, my assistant, who fell in love with this project early on and became my constant confidante, editor, support person, and mirror. Toward the end of the writing of this book, I would pace the floor and dictate to Heidi, and the atmosphere of trust, humor, and intelligence that was generated in our working together is something I will always be grateful for. And I want to do it again, Heidi.
Thank you to all my family members; my brothers, Rick and Frank; my children, John and Tina; and my beloved nephews, Romeo and Adrian. You have all been life shapers. Thank you, Adrian, for your courage, and thank you Romeo for all the tears and laughter.
I give thanks to all my Integral friends and teachers, starting, of course, with Ken Wilber for punching a big fat whole in the universe that the rest of us could follow you through. To Marco Morelli, thank you for helping to organize my thoughts early on. You are the kick in the pants that I needed. Thank you to Dennis Wittrock, Leslie Hershberger, David Riordan, Jennifer Walton, Diane Hamilton, Shawn Phillips, Dr. Adam Gorman, and Brother David Stendl-Rast (for healing my broken Christian heart; the hug did go back forty years). And thank you to Dr. Kevin McCauley for your pioneering work in helping us to understand that addiction is a brain disease. Also, thanks to Bill Harris and Holosync® for being such a big part of my initial healing journey.
I am also grateful to my dear and beloved partner in iAwake Technologies, Eric Thompson, for your genius, huge heart, and friendship. You are a game-changer, and I love you. Thank you also to Jane Bunker, for saying yes to this book. Finally, thank you to all my students and their families. You have been my greatest teachers.
And, last but not least, thank you, God, I'm really grateful.
Introduction
Why Another Book on Recovery from Addiction?
Chances are if you are reading this, there's an addict in your life. Maybe it's a family member, a friend, a client, a co-worker. Maybe it's you. For years, I have worked on the front lines of addiction treatment, working with families and individuals. This journey has taken me to the inside of jails, hospitals, AA meetings, wilderness quests, juvenile halls, funeral parlors, and countless other environments, where the toll of the disease can be seen in the naked suffering that it causes. In the case of my brother, addiction to pharmaceuticals coupled with depression led to his suicide; a beloved aunt died a slow, painful death of emphysema from a lifetime of smoking; and an uncle who had struggled with alcoholism for years ended his life with a shotgun. This is just a small part of my story. Each of you reading this will have your own stories and losses.
I hope it will be evident in the course of this book that the circle of our concern and care is not just for the suffering addict, but for all who have suffered from the ravages of this disease. When you begin to look comprehensively at addiction and make the connections to neglected and abused children, fetal alcohol syndrome, crimes committed, individuals locked up, suicides, families destroyed, talents and gifts never realized, and hopes dashed, the extent of the suffering you find is simply enormous. It is my hope and prayer that this book and Integral Recovery can begin to shine a new light of hope where before there has existed largely confusion and despair. This book is intended to work on the front lines of the fight against the disease of addiction: in the hands of addicts and their families, their loved ones, their health care providers, their therapists, their friends, their teachers and life coaches. Integral Recovery is about action, about practice, about commitment, and about service—not merely an intellectual exercise or discourse on a philosophical approach (although it can be that too)—but something for you to study and then engage in, to move upon the knowledge. Integral Recovery is an urgent appeal to stand up, reach out, and set foot on the journey of recovery, self-discovery, and transformation.
As Americans, we must begin by asking the question, Why do we (the United States) use the lion's share of the illegal drugs on the planet, when we are such a small percentage of the population? What is going on, and what went wrong? Why has our war on drugs, which started as far back as the Nixon administration, failed to stop the spread and rise of drug use and abuse in our country, among all age groups and socioeconomic groups? Another way of putting this is, Why haven't we been able to protect generations of our children from drugs, tobacco, and alcohol?
Some years ago, I was trying to connect these dots on a personal level as well as at the larger national and world levels. At one point, I thought this might be a book I had to write. Happily, someone beat me to the punch. High Society , 1 a recently published book by Joseph A. Califano Jr., former director of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under Jimmy Carter, brilliantly illuminates the price that our civilization, culture, economy, families, and individuals are paying for the plague of drug abuse and addiction that is wreaking havoc on our country and our world. Califano does a masterful job of laying out the costs and causes of this human catastrophe in a clarion call of alarm and possible hope—if we change our attitudes and approaches to the myriad issues involving drug abuse and addiction in our country. “Although we are 4% of the world's population, we Americans consume 65 percent of the world's illegal drugs. One in four Americans will have an alcohol or drug disorder at some point in his or her life. And most of these people have parents, children, siblings, friends, and colleagues who will suffer collateral damage.” 2
Califano's call is to sober up our “High Society” and to recognize that substance abuse and addiction together make up “the nation's number one serial killer and crippler.” And he calls for us to acknowledge these fundamental realities: Addiction is a chronic disease of epidemic proportions, with physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual elements that require continuing and holistic [Integral] care. Addiction is a culprit implicated in our nation's high health care costs, crime, and social ills, including child abuse and neglect, chronic poverty, homelessness, teen pregnancy, the wildfire spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and family breakup. There are statistical and biological (chemical and neurological) relationships among smoking, abusing alcohol, and marijuana use, and between abuse of those drugs and use of cocaine, heroin, prescription drugs, methamphetamines, hallucinogens, and other substances.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the economic cost of drug abuse in the United States reaches into the hundreds of billions of dollars. 3 In 2006, the Schneider Institute 4 estimated that 10 percent of the National Health Care Budget was being spent on drug abuse and addiction: $230 billion and climbing every year. Hold this thought in the light and add to it that only around 10 percent of those who need treatment actually get it and that even in the blue chip treatment centers the success rates are approximately 30 percent. 5 We can begin to see the magnitude of the problem. Although the dollar amounts are staggering, it hardly touches on the emotional and spiritual costs of addiction—the lost and wasted human potential, the devastation to families and communities.
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