Book description
Addiction is one of the most critical problems of our modern world,
affecting children as much as adults. We face not only a widespread
dependency on illicit substances, but also addictions to food,
beverages, cigarettes and alcohol, as well as electronic gadgetry,
online social networks, and entertainment media within a culture of
violence, along with excessive and unhealthy sexual practices. This
book explores the overall health consequences of addictive behaviour
in children and young people, as well as its underlying causes.
Drawing on anthroposophical insights, the author sees the child
holistically as body, soul and spirit on a developmental journey from
newborn to adult. He examines specific addictions through case
histories taken from his clinical practice, and offers a tried and
tested method to understand and manage each individual child or young
person who succumbs to such dependencies. This book will be of value
to parents, teachers and health professionals who work with children
and adolescents; to young people and adults caught up in unhealthy
addictive behaviour; and to all those who wish to understand better
their own human nature.
'This is a timely book on a vitally important subject. Raoul Goldberg
focuses our attention on the battle for consciousness required to
address our multiple mind-numbing and life-draining addictions.' -- Dr
Rosy Daniel, Director of the British College of Integrative Medicine 'Dr
Goldberg is the one of the most creative, original thinkers and
researchers in the field of Integrative Medicine I have ever met, and a
great contributor to the huge task of humanising medicine. He is a
leading practitioner in the new field of Medical Psychophonetics, and
his unique insight into the welfare of growing children, and into the
formation and the possible healing of addiction in childhood, is a
combination of years of devotional medical work with children with the
depth of a great human soul.' -- Yehuda Tagar, founder of
Psychophonetics, director of Persephone Institute of Psychophonetics and
of Michaeli Leadership Institute (South Africa). 'A challenging yet
hopeful book which tackles the core of a critical issue.' -- Peter
Powis, Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist, Syringa Health Centre,
South Africa Dr Raoul Goldberg has practised Integrative Medicine for
thirty-five years in Switzerland, Germany and the majority of his career
in his homeland, South Africa. His work includes managing an Integrative
Health Clinic and practising as a clinical doctor and counsellor, school
doctor, international lecturer and child health researcher. He is the
author of Awakening to Child Health (Hawthorn Press, UK) and many other
publications on Integrative Medicine and Child Health.
