<B>Author Abraham Twerski reveals how self-deceptive thought can undermine self-esteem and threaten the sobriety of a recovering individuals and offers hope to those seeking a healthy and rewarding recovery.</B><BR><BR>In addiction, a person with a substance use disorder undergoes a negative change in thinking and behavioral patterns. A person’s character is overthrown by addictive thinking: displacement, projection, shame, and hypersensitivity are addiction’s survival mechanisms. With <i>Addictive Thinking</i>, both addict<i>s</i> and loved ones familiarize themselves with these addictive signatures and more, and begin the fight for recovery.<BR><BR> With more than 200,000 copies of <i>Addictive Thinking</i> sold worldwide, the eminent Abraham Twerski, M.D., outlines the destructive and terrifying illogic that marries a person with a substance use disorder to his addiction. “Stinking thinking” and irrational thought are byproducts of addiction and they only wor