Offers a step-by-step program to help individuals identify the hooks triggering their addictive behaviors and replace them with healthier habits. Through awareness-building and constructive responses, this shame-free approach aims to destigmatize addiction and empower readers to lead addiction-free lives.
Learn to identify the "hooks" that trigger your addictive behavior and replace compulsive habits with constructive ones using this helpful guide from a mental health expert.
As a young man, Dr. Adi Jaffes own battle with addiction nearly landed him a decades-long prison sentence. Now, his revelatory addiction treatment protocol has helped thousands to free themselves from the addictive habits that cause negative consequences. Dr. Jaffes shame-free, step-by-step program helps you address what's driving your addiction by:
·Identifying the hooks that drive your behavior
·Building awareness of when these hooks are activated
·Unpacking your go-to habitual responses
·Creating new, healthier patterns and ways of reacting
The Unhooked Method destigmatizes addiction and uses habit change knowledge and tools to help you to unhook for an addiction-free life.
Adi Jaffe, PhD, is a nationally recognized expert on mental health, addiction, relationships, and shame. Formerly a lecturer in the UCLA Psychology department and the executive director and cofounder of one of the most progressive mental health treatment facilities in the country, he is the founder of IGNTD Recovery. Dr. Jaffe attended UCLA, graduating with a BA and a PhD in psychology. Using both his personal experience and his research and work with clients, Dr. Jaffe now writes for Psychology Today, and has been featured in CNN, The Huffington Post, Insider, and the Los Angeles Times, among many other outlets. Dr. Jaffe lives with his family in Southern California.