Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception

Few areas of inquiry into human affairs have produced as many experts as the field of chemical dependence. Alcoholism and drug addiction are loaded with international and national experts, each claiming special knowledge of these peculiar diseases that have roused so much controversy while continuing to be so misunderstood by so many. There are experts on wayward chemicals in the brain. Experts who have studied how genes cross the generation gap carrying who knows what cargo of biological risk factors. Experts on family dysfunction. Experts on AA, group therapy, nutrition, behavioral approaches, self-esteem, stress, society and culture, spirituality, relapse, dual diagnoses, and so forth. And while each of these experts undoubtedly holds a piece of the truth about these devastating illnesses, none seems to have as firm a grasp on the whole picture …

Twerski, Abraham J. Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception (Kindle Locations 60-66). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition.