The Power of Connection This fresh take on understanding addiction and recovery combines attachment, interpersonal neurobiology, and trauma with ecological systems-thinking to provide a comprehensive picture of addiction. It paints addiction as a substitute relationship to ease the pain of disconnection and presents a model, a method, and a mandate. This new focus calls for change in the established ways we think and behave about addiction and recovery. It reorients understanding and clinical practice for mental health and addiction counselors, psychologists, and social workers, as well as for addicts and those who love them.
