When You Don't Know Where to Turn / A Self-Diagnosing Guide to Counseling and Therapy

by Steven J. Bartlett

§13.3. Substance-induced: alcoholism, drug addiction, smoking.

Alcoholism: Y, O, Alcoholics Anonymous

Drug abuse: Primary: Y, Synanon, O
Secondary: M, D, K

Smoking: O, W

Potentially useful for all of the above as adjunctive treatments: T, X

§13.4. Organic brain dysfunctions: epilepsy, narcolepsy, amnesia, dementia, delirium. There are numerous conditions caused by abnormalities in brain function. They do not lend themselves to self-diagnosis or treatment. The main treatment is: Y

STEP 2

TAKING YOUR PERSONALITY INTO ACCOUNT

What is challenging for a therapist is discerning the form of learning that each patient can best utilize and then working to adopt techniques that are best suited for the patient.... An important area of research is a way of detecting in a patient his optimal modes of learning. If we can pinpoint these, we can then more precisely determine the best means of therapeutic operation.[[2]]