"Finally! A book that addresses spirituality as a part of
sexuality in terms everyone can understand. I look forward to
incorporating the material in this book to add new dimensions to
our recovery programs."
-Joseph M. Amico, M.DIV., CAS, Executive Director, Pride Institute,
Co-Chair, National Council on Sexual Addiction and
Compulsivity
"Picucci teaches us how to integrate the mind, body, and spirit and
to reclaim our lives, passion, and our humanity. Written with great
clarity and co
內容簡介:
Founder of the Institute for Staged Recovery in New York City
and creator of "Authentic Process Therapy," Picucci is an
addictions counselor who bases his methods primarily on personal
experience. In this updated edition of his self-published Complete
Recovery, Picucci describes a "Stage Two" recovery program for
evolving beyond freedom from addictions to "holism," which
encompasses joy, bliss, love, empowerment, creativity, respect for
all life, and peace. Picucci makes an interesting distinction
between recovery from addictions and childhood traumas" and
"recovery of fulfillment, wisdom, serenity, and emotional,
spiritual and sexual wholeness.
Using a structure of 12 stations, which can be visited and
revisited in any order as often as needed, he guides readers
through six fundamental and six emergent modules of this process
for healing the "spiritual-sexual split" and the "cultural pain...
of oppressed minorities," and ultimately achieving the "shame-free
presentation of self." Picucci says he offers "nothing less than a
re-birthing process" through a combination of one-on-one
psychotherapy, support groups and spirituality. His own life
experiences as a gay man, once married, now HIV positive, surviving
AIDS, cancer, a heart attack, triple-bypass surgery and drug and
alcohol addictions give him a uniquely credible perspective on
healing and wholeness. In his cogent, well-organized handbook,
Picucci functions a bit like the gay shamans who had a special
place in North American Indian tribes. His compassionate acceptance
of diversity will inspire many readers to care to take the next
step and seek the help they need.