I have been fortunate to attend several lectures and seminars by author and clinician John Lee. His website is http://flyingboy.com . He focuses a great deal on addiction and addiction recovery of course, but more specificaly on the effects addiction has on relationships.One way of looking at it is the development of life skills.
Have a listen to Alan Lyme, Director of Education at The Hanley Center interview John Lee.

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I’ve actually heard him speak in person and I think he’s great. However, I just saw a special on ABC last night about self -help gurus… I believe it was called “Mind Games” and it made me feel uneasy about the whole self-help industry.
I think that if you’re careful with you who choose to listen to though, you can find people that are genuinly concerned with recovery. I think John Lee is trustworthy.
-Nancy