The headlines ring with stories of opioid addiction and overdose.
Parents complain about their children's screen addiction, law
enforcement decries the flood of fentanyl, scores of Americans
overdose and die daily, and teen alcohol poisoning and
marijuana-induced psychosis rates continue to rise. Disabling
depression and anxiety are diagnosed at alarming rates in families
across the country. Now, more than ever, families struggle to live
with, care for, and protect their family members suffering with
addiction or mental illness. Kenneth Perlmutter, a California
psychologist with 30-plus years in the field, has written Freedom
from Family Dysfunction specifically for family members who love
someone battling addiction or mental illness who want to break the
cycles of codependency and relapse plaguing their dysfunctional
systems. The combination of compelling vignettes, lively dialogues,
and step-by-step instructions makes this guidebook an indispensable
tool for the parents, partners, adult children, and the clinicians
who treat them, to heal the powerlessness, pain, and impossibility
of life with someone they've been trying to help, sometimes for
decades. Perlmutter takes a systemic and inter-generational view,
combining current knowledge with his deep personal experience of
addiction and family dysfunction to guide readers toward
understanding their systems, their positions in them, and the
forces that keep things stuck. "Stress-Induced Impaired Coping
(SIIC)" is the term he's coined to describe his ground-breaking
model of family system pathology and recovery. He invites families
to see themselves not as dysfunctional, but as wounded, as they
work toward connection, closeness, and the restoration of systemic
mental wellness and sustainability. Best of all, the method works
regardless of whether the one identified as "the problem" makes
changes or not. Family members who take up Perlmutter's method
will: * create closeness by pursuing connection over being right *
reject "tough love" * learn to communicate authentically and to set
boundaries confidently and fairly * rebuild trust, authenticity and
equality in family relationships * reduce chaos, anxiety and
distress in the mind and in the home * shift the entire family
system itself toward wellness
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