Addiction dilemmas : family experiences from literature and research and their challenges for practice / Jim Orford.

Includes index.

We'll be there for him : a family responds to relapse -- Long day's journey into night by Eugene O'Neill -- Tough love : a television studio discussion -- Wives of gamblers -- The tenant of wildfell hall by Anne Bront -- British sikh wives and daughters stand up to men's drinking -- Nil by mouth : a film by Gary Oldman -- Worrying for drinkers in aboriginal Australia -- A prodigal son : the mother's story -- Parents of problem gamblers -- The tale of Caitlin Thomas -- Dylan Thomas in America by John Malcolm Brinnin -- An imaginary conversation : wives in Mexico, England, South Korea and Italy -- Father figure by Beverley Nichols -- Growing up with my mother by Virginia Ironside -- Mrs Sara Coleridge and friends -- Five husbands of wives with drinking problems : a focus group -- A chancer by James Kelman -- Growing up with parents who drink excessively : four stories -- Baudelaire and his mother in chains -- Fever pitch by Richard Brooks -- I only had the baby's welfare at heart : concerned grandmothers.