Prologue

Introduction: Remembering Addiction

I. Writing for Our Lives

1. A Sobriety of Literary Merit

2. Letters of Invitation and Dismissal

3. Bargaining: Controlled Drinking and Other Negotiated Settlements

4. Telegrams from God: Reauthoring Spirituality

5. Epilogues: Letting Go

II. Detoxing the Theory

6. Becoming 12-Step Literate

III. Stories for Our Times

7. Trauma and Recovery

8. Reality Bytes: Narrating Food Addictions

9. Writing Home: Applications to Family Therapy

10. Sobering Up Ophelia: Therapy with Children and Adolescents

11. Narrating Our Own Stories: Therapists in Recovery

IV. No Conclusions

12. A Less Convenient Fiction

Postscript: Muddling Through