STEPHANIE BROWN, PhD, is the Director of the Addictions Institute in Menlo Park, California. She also founded and was a director of the Alcohol Clinic at Stanford University Medical Center. An internationally recognized expert on the treatment of alcoholics and their families, Dr. Brown is a licensed psychologist with nearly 25 years of clinical experience, a researcher, consultant, and frequent lecturer in the field of alcoholism. She is the author of Treating the Alcoholic: A Developmental Model of Recovery, also available from Wiley.

THE ALCOHOLIC FAMILY.; The Children of Alcoholics.; The Alcoholic Family Environment.; Interactions, Patterns, and Adaptations.; THE IMPACT OF PARENTAL ALCOHOLISM ON INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT.; Trauma and Defensive Adaptations.; The Impact of Parental Alcoholism on Attachment.; The Impact of Parental Alcoholism on Identity Formation.; THE PROCESS OF RECOVERY.; The Process of Recovery: Theory.; Preparation for Recovery: Drinking and Transition.; Early Recovery.; Ongoing Recovery.; What Is Progress: Growing Up, Growing Out, and Coming Home.; References.; Index.