Accepting Ourselves and Others: A Journey Into Recovery from Addictive and Compulsive Behaviors for Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals

by Sheppard B Kominars and Sheppard B Kominars Ph.D.

Book Overview

Accepting Ourselves and Others examines the issue of recovery as it affects the homosexual and bisexual communities, as well as their friends, family, and therapists An estimated 10 million addicts and alcoholics in the U.S. are homosexual or bisexual. In fact, the rate of substance addiction rises from one in ten in the general community to perhaps as many as one in three in the gay community. Accepting Ourselves, first published in 1989, was the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568381204
• ISBN13: 9781568381206
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

THE book for recovering gays and lesbians

As the director of a gay and lesbian treatment center we have made this book our "basic text". Every new admit is given this book to read and the workbook format is excellent for working the steps. It replaces the traditional 12 Step Big Books and our own written step materials. We now have a book that puts it all into one: how sexual identity issues affect compulsive and addictive behaviors with concrete ways to recover from this destructive behavior.