For a family system drug user it is actually a good thing, as it is easier for the person to eventually stop using the drug.
Dependent drug use and giving up
Most people entering counselling will be most surprised by this and are not expecting the drug counsellor to be of this mind at all.
Paranoid personality treatment planning
The paranoid wont respect the therapist (see them as having a potency) unless they prove themselves to be a good thinker, that can at least match the paranoid in this way.
Reverse psychology as a therapeutic approach
I had refused to engage her RC therapy and instead suggested some Free Child activity we could do. Maybe that had allowed her to at last discover that her Free Child didn’t want to smoke anymore.
Curing alcoholism – switch the addiction
Where mother’s injunction says “Don’t leave me!” Synanon says “Stay here instead.” (p.185-186). He also says elsewhere, “Curing an addict is the easiest thing in the world – if.