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Title: The Hidden Addiction: Behind Shoplifting and Other Self-Defeating Behaviors
Author: Peter Berlin
Narrator: Andrew L. Barnes
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-13-13
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
The Hidden Addiction: Behind Shoplifting and Other Self-Defeating Behaviors is based on the premise that people do not want to make their life any harder than it already is. When people are shown who they really are as individuals, and how to easily change their false and self-destructive thinking and beliefs, they can be guided to significantly alter their life solely on their own steam. The goal is to strengthen people so they can be who they want to be. This is done by presenting core issues in life, rarely taught at home or in school, in a practical and unique manner.
Members Reviews:
I would sincerely highly highly recommend this book
This book was exactly what I needed! It really really touches on areas I'd never thought about might be the problem! I would sincerely highly highly recommend this book. Especially for the addiction to shoplifting. I've never read a book that really helped me totally understand and totally think about things like this one. A definite must read!
Three Stars
good story leading up to the problems of kleptomania.
A General Book with Some Good Points but Could Have Included More Specifics
I just finished reading Mr. Berlin's book "The Hidden Addiction." I have been familiar with his work in the shoplifting field for quite some time. I was hoping to learn more specifics about how he "coaches" shoplifters and shoplifting addicts. While the book has some good general insights into secret and compulsive behaviors, it lacks depth and concrete examples that, I feel, would truly help someone with shoplifting or other addictions--especially those in the earlier stages of seeking recovery.
I appreciated Mr. Berlin's personal share about discovering his own secret at age 50--that he had been adopted--and how he managed to work through his sense of abandonment and betrayal. However, I feel his prescription for working through major addictions is somewhat superficial. Mr. Berlin is not a trained or licensed therapist and I'm not sure what his coaching of shoplifters involves but, as a psychotherapist and coach myself, I make a distinction between therapy and coaching and feel it is unethical and problematic for a coach to try to assist persons in the throes of addiction; coaching is better suited for more general issues and/or fine-tuning and goal-setting and goal achievement once sobriety is achieved.
Mr. Berlin lists the pros and cons of seeking psychotherapy in this book and, I'd argue, he undermines his own pitch for his coaching by listing a number of reasons why one should seek psychotherapy over coaching including the following: when there's a history of trauma; when there's a diagnosis of a psychological disorder such as depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder, impulse control disorder (kleptomania) and others; or when one has an addictive personality. Thus, it would appear most people with shoplifting or other addictions would fall into these categories.
I am also concerned about the apparent tone toward medications as one important treatment factor for many who suffer from addictive-compulsive behaviors. Medications, while not a panacea, often play a crucial role in the lives of those in early recovery.
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