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• Title:Chained to the desk : a guidebook for workaholics, their partners and children, and the clinicians who treat them / Bryan E. Robinson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Robinson, Bryan E.
  
• Published/Created:New York : New York University Press, ©2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM176 .R658 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Workaholism.
  Workaholics--Family relationships.
  
• Medical Subjects: Behavior, Addictive.
  Family Relations.
  Work.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xiv, 274 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780814775967 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0814775969 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780814775974 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0814775977 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction: The "Blackberrization" of Our Lives
  Overwork: This Century's Cocaine
  Workaholism and Work Addiction
  Why Will This Book Be Helpful?
  1. Work Addiction: The New American Idol
  Bryan (My Story)
  Work Addiction: The New American Idol
  Who, Me a Workaholic?
  Difference between Healthy Workers and Workaholics
  Are You Chained to the Desk?
  Workaholism: A Family Disease
  Suggestions for Clinicians
  2. Work Addiction: Myths and Realities
  Margo
  I Only Work on Days That End with "Y"
  Historical and Cultural Trends
  Conditions That Enable Work Addiction
  Myths about Work Addiction
  Debunking the Myths
  Suggestions for Clinicians
  3. How to Recognize Work Addiction
  Glenn
  When Work Steals Your Soul
  Tell-Tale Signs of Work Addiction
  Many Faces of Work Addiction
  Suggestions for Clinicians
  4. Treating Work Addiction as a Family Disease
  Brenda
  Family Systems Addictions Model
  When Work Addiction Hits Home: The Smith Family
  Structural and Dynamic Characteristics of the Family System
  Research on the Workaholic Family System
  Suggestions for Clinicians
  5. Inside the Workaholic Mind
  Art
  I Work, Therefore I Am
  Impostor Syndrome
  World through Workaholic Eyes
  Rigid Thinking That Drives Work Addiction
  Mind-Body Link and the Workaholic's Health
  How to Think That Black Cloud Away
  Suggestions for Clinicians
  6. Childhoods of Workaholics
  Ross
  Childhood Origins of Work Addiction
  Parentified Kids: Little Adults with Big Burdens
  Are You A Parentified Careaholic?
  My Own Parentification: The Workaholic Poster Child
  Suggestions for Clinicians
  7. Spouses and Partners of Workaholics
  Renee
  Married to the Job
  Work, Work Everywhere, Not Any Time to Think
  Difficulty with Intimacy: When Your PalmPilot Is Your Best Friend
  Concealment and Deceit in the Couple Relationship
  Suggestions for Clinicians
  8. Children of Workaholics
  Charles
  Carrying the Legacy of the Pretty Addiction
  "Daddy Gone": Growing Up with a Workaholic Parent
  Making of a Chameleon
  Suggestions for Clinicians
  9. Work Addiction in the Company
  Mary
  Thank God It's Monday (TGIM)!
  Emperor Has No Clothes
  Work Environments That Promote Work Addiction
  Boss from Hell
  Changes in the Workplace
  Suggestions for Clinicians
  10. Workaholics Anonymous and Other Resources
  Further Readings
  Audiovisuals
  Support Organizations
  Workaholics Anonymous
  Psychometric Properties of the Work Addiction Risk Test (WART).