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 Books by sylvia cary, mft

IT MUST BE FIVE O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE

A wedding! What could be more promising?  The marriage of two beautiful, advantaged, intelligent people – she’s a psychologist and he’s a psychiatrist – and they’re in love.  Furthermore, in addition to all other things they have in common, they share a delusion:  That they have the answers to life’s problems.  They are, after all, in the “happiness business”.  What could possibly go wrong?  Eventually, just about everything goes wrong.  That’s what this compelling narrative is all about. (CompCare Publications)

Comments and Reviews:

“A fine book, a witty and urbane tale of life…a must for the ‘impaired’ professional or anybody who has a highly educated loved one who is drinking just a bit too much.” -- The Washington Post.

JOLTED SOBER: Getting to the Moment of Clarity in the Recovery from Addiction

Who says there’s no such thing as a spontaneous remission from addiction?  Read this book, and you’ll find out about the best-kept secret in the field of addiction:  Spontaneous remissions really do happen. Thousands of recovering alcoholics, drug addicts, over-eaters, gamblers, smokers, debtors, and even sex and relationship addicts, have discovered from their own personal experiences that healing often happens not in a slow, step-by-step way over time, but in a flash.  There’s an Aha!, a moment of clarity -- usually triggered by some internal or external event – and, as a result, the chains of addiction suddenly fall away.  It’s a jolt cure, and it lasts.  (Lowell House Pubs.)

Comments and Reviews: 

“In this concise, clearly written book, Sylvia Cary describes the shift of awareness that signals and solidifies abstinent behavior.” – The California Therapist. 

 

WOMEN CELEBRATE LONG-TERM SOBRIETY:  Sober Women Share About Life, Love, Family, Work, and Money

What would it be like to be inside the head of someone who has been sober for ten years?  What about twenty-five years?  What about fifty years?  Until this book, based on the author’s interviews with twenty-one women who have been sober between ten and fifty years, surprisingly little has been written that describes the long-term sobriety experience.  Here we learn that sobriety is not a stand-still deal.  Changes keep happening in every area of life.  The women find that as time goes on, they think differently, feel differently, work differently, love differently, parent differently, spend differently, handle troubles differently, and relate to the world differently.  Women Celebrate Long-Term Sobriety is a kind of “portable support group” in itself. (Lowell House Pubs.)

Comments and Reviews:

“I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in how women can obtain and maintain sobriety…insights for therapists and clients alike.” – Eric F. Wagner, Ph.D., Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University.

“Ms. Cary shares the wisdom of 21 women with 422 combined ears of sobriety — from ten years to an astounding fifty years. Wry humor sparkles throughout -- a much-treasured gift for the woman in early recovery (as well as) for the old-timer.” – Sober Times

“A thoughtful and provocative study of recovering women alcoholics...This eminently readable book – although targeted for the recovering woman -- has such wisdom and insight that I recommend it as general reading for male and female alike.” -- Muriel M. Zink, author of Step by Step.

THE ALCOHOLIC MAN:  What You Can Learn From the Heroic Journeys of Recovering Alcoholics

Can an alcoholic man be a hero?  Not if he’s still out there bashing up cars and beating up on his kids.  But Cary’s “heroes” are those who are in recovery, the ones who no longer drink or take drugs.  In this book the author delves into the psyches of eighteen men, and traces the different stages of recovery in increments of time – from 30 days of sobriety up to 43 years of sobriety. The reader benefits from the accumulated wisdom of these men who have both triumphed and erred during their heroic journeys towards long-term recovery. (Lowell House Pubs.)

Comments and Reviews:

“An in-depth look at the reality of today’s AA and the adventuring heroes within it.” -- Sober Times

“I am grateful that Sylvia Cary has written a book that provides me with something that makes my job easier…I can hand (my patients) a copy of The Alcoholic Man and say, ‘Here, this may help you understand what I’m talking about.  It explains a lot.’ ” – from the Foreword by Jokichi Takamine, M.D., Past Chairman, American Medical Association Task Force on Alcoholism; Member, American Medical Association Task Force on Drugs.

“Sylvia knew exactly what to do to help me get my writing to the reader.”

 

— Charlyne Gelt, Ph.D., author of various published articles and the recently completed book, Hell’s Angels: The Transformative Journeys of Women Who Love Lifers.

 

There’s nothing better than waddling up to a good book.