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This page contains a recommended reading list.

 

Core Reading List

 

S.M.A.R.T. Recovery Member's Manual

 

A compilation of practical information designed to assist the reader in attaining the ultimate goal of recovery

 

SMART Recovery

S.M.A.R.T. Recovery: A Sensible Primer

 

William Knaus Ph.D.

William Knaus Longmeadow, MA - 1995

When AA Doesn't Work for You: Rational Steps to Quitting Alcohol

 

Albert Ellis Ph.D. & Emmett Velten Ph.D.

Barricade Books Inc., Fort Lee, NJ - 1992

Alcohol: How to Give it Up and Be Glad You Did A Sensible Approach

 

Philip Tate Ph.D.

Rational Self-Help Press, Altamonte Spring, FL - 1993

Changing for Good

James Prochaska Ph.D., John Norcross Ph.D. & Carlo DiClemente Ph.D.

 

Wm.Morrow & Company, New York, NY - 1994

 

The Truth About Addiction and Recovery

 

Stanton Peele Ph.D. & Archy Brodsky with Mary Arnold

Simon & Schuster - 1989

Addiction Change & Choice: The New View of Alcoholism

 

Vincent Fox M.Ed. CRRED

See Sharp Press, Tucson, AZ - 1993

The Small Book

 

Jack Trimpey LCSW

Delacorte Press, New York, NY - 1992

 

Additional Reading

 

How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything Yes Anything!

 

Albert Ellis Ph.D.

Lyle Stuart Inc., Secaucus, NJ - 1988

A New Guide to Rational Living

Albert Ellis Ph.D. & Robert Harper  Ph.D.

Wilshire Book Company, N. Hollywood, CA - 1975

 

The RET Resource Book for Practitioners Edited by Michael E. Bernard Ph.D. & Janet L. Wolfe Ph.D. Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy, New York, NY

 

Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control

 

Stanton Peele Ph.D. Lexington Books - 1989
Heavy Drinking: The Myth About Alcoholism as a Disease

 

Herbert Fingarette Ph.D. University of California Press - 1988
Feeling Good David Burns William Morrow & Company New York NY

 

The Authoritative Guide to Self Help Books

 

Santrock, Minnett and Campbell Guilford Press - 1994
Three Minute Therapy: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

 

Michael R. Edelstein and David Ramsay Steele(Contributor) Glenbridge Pub Ltd - 1997
Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult or Cure Charles Bufe See Sharp Press - 1998

Some of these books can be obtained from the SMART Recovery Bookstore. Others are available from libraries or bookstores.

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